Tyne and Wear HER(12240): Gateshead, Dounde yar Fishery - Details
12240
Gateshead
Gateshead, Dounde yar Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Dounde yar in 1128, Bonde yare. One of the bishop's yairs. 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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63
NZ2463
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61