Tyne and Wear HER(12254): Whickham, Gump Fishery - Details
12254
Gateshead
Whickham, Gump Fishery
Whickham
NZ16SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12-C14
Documentary Evidence
Gump in 1128, Grip. Grip may allude to the fish-trap's function of gripping its prey. 'Grype' is old English for 'a ditch, trench or drain'. Owned by the bishop of Durham. 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}.
184
636
NZ184636
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61