Gateshead, Helflet' yar' Fishery

HER Number:
12245

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Helflet' yar' Fishery

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

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:
Helflet' yar' in 1128, Elfletes yare. Could mean Aelfflaed or Aepelfaed's yair or 'yair by or in the eel stream, channel or inlet'. Owned by the bishop of Durham. East of the Tyne bridge. May refer to an eel-stream rather than 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