Tyne and Wear HER(12238): Whickham, Deap' yar Fishery - Details
12238
Gateshead
Whickham, Deap' yar Fishery
Whickham
NZ16SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12-C14
Documentary Evidence
Deap' yar' in 1128, Deape Yare or ayre. 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}.
183
636
NZ183636
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61