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12259


S Tyneside


Westoe, Sancte Hildear' Fishery


Westoe


NZ36NE


Agriculture and Subsistence


Fish Trap


Fish Weir


Medieval


C12


Documentary Evidence


Sancte Hildear in 1128, Hildeiare in 1195, Sancte Hilde yare. From the personal name Hild or Hilde. One of the monks' weirs, presumably belonging to the chapel of St. Hild. 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}.


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66


NZ3566



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

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