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12226


Gateshead


Whickham, Alcherles yar Fishery


Whickham


NZ16SE


Agriculture and Subsistence


Fish Trap


Fish Weir


Medieval


C12-C14


Documentary Evidence


Alcherles yar in 1128, Alcherles yare, Ealdceorl's yair, Feilitzen 240. One of the bishop of Durham's weirs in Whickham 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}.


193


640


NZ193640



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

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