Tyne and Wear HER(12256): Hebburn, Heberin yar Fishery - Details
12256
S Tyneside
Hebburn, Heberin yar Fishery
Hebburn
NZ36NW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Heberin(e) yar(e) in 1328 and 1333, Herbernyares in 1430. Two fisheries in Hebburn. 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}.
30
65
NZ3065
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61