Jarrow, full' yare in Pole Fishery

HER Number:
12249

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
Jarrow, full' yare in Pole Fishery

Place:
Jarrow

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

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:
Full' yare in Pole in 1128, Fuliare in 1195, Fulyare in 1313, Fule yare in pul, (le) Pulyare in 1370 to 1578, Pul(l)e, Pult, 3ar, 3aare. 'Ful' is old English for foul, dirty weir. 'Pul' is a pool or pond. One of the monk's weirs in Jarrow. The 'pol' may have been Jarrow Slake. 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:
339

Northing:
659

Grid Reference:
NZ339659

Lats/Lons:

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