Jarrow, Hachesiare fishery

HER Number:
12225

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, Hachesiare fishery

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12-C14

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Hachesiare before 1195, Aches yar in 1128, aches yare. The name may mean 'Aki's yair' or more likely be derived from old english 'haecc' which between 1296-7 meant a wooden hatch, grating or sluice-gate placed in a watercourse. It later came to specifically refer to the horizontal bars laid alongside the top of a dam or weir to stop salmon from jumping over it. Hachesiare was one of the prior of Durham's fisheries belonging to Jarrow township. The main catch would have been salmon, but in fact a wider range of fish would have been taken (eg. Eels, pike, minnow, burbot, trout and lamprey' {G.N. Garmondsway (ed), 1939, 'Aelfric's Colloquy', pp 101-2}.

Easting:
325

Northing:
659

Grid Reference:
NZ325659

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61