Tyne and Wear HER(12250): Monkton, Full' yar' Fishery - Details
12250
S Tyneside
Monkton, Full' yar' Fishery
Monkton
NZ26SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Full' yar' in 1128, Fuleiare in 1195 or yare. 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}.
298
633
NZ298633
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61