Tyne and Wear HER(12226): Whickham, Alcherles yar Fishery - Details
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