Whickham, Dode Fishery

HER Number:
12239

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, Dode Fishery

Place:
Whickham

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

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:
Dode in 1128 or Rote. This yair is probably the bishop's yair called 'Roti' or 'Rutyare' in the 1279 Assize Roll. 'Rutyare' in 1344. It had extended 20 fathoms beyond its due bounds in 1279. It is later described as possessing three 'heads' and as extending into the 'mid-water of Tyne'. 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:
182

Northing:
636

Grid Reference:
NZ182636

Lats/Lons:

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