Tyne and Wear HER(12234): Gateshead, Due Comitith yares Fishery - Details
12234
Gateshead
Gateshead, Due Comitith yares Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12-C14
Documentary Evidence
Due Comitith yares in 1128, corntithe, Coutitche, contitthe yares. Owned by the bishop of Durham. 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}.
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NZ2463
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61