Tyne and Wear HER(12229): Blaydon, Bladene yar Fishery - Details
12229
Gateshead
Blaydon, Bladene yar Fishery
Blaydon
NZ16SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12-C14
Documentary Evidence
Bladene yar in 1128, Blaydon yair. One of the bishop of Durham's weirs. 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}.
190
640
NZ190640
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61