Gateshead, Dykes yar' Fishery

HER Number:
12241

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Dykes yar' Fishery

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Dykes yar' 1128, Dike yare. 'Dic' means 'ditch, excavated trench or artificial watercourse in Old English. One of the bishop's yairs. Fed by an artificial channel of some kind. 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:
24

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ2463

Lats/Lons:

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