Nether Heworth, Blaklawyar Fishery

HER Number:
12230

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Nether Heworth, Blaklawyar Fishery

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Blaklawyar between 1438-9. 'Bloec' is old English for 'black', 'hlaw' means hill. Hence Blackhill yair. 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:
29

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ2962

Lats/Lons:

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