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12261


Gateshead


Nether Heworth, Le Holle Fishery


Heworth


NZ26SE


Agriculture and Subsistence


Fish Trap


Fish Weir


Medieval


C12


Documentary Evidence


Le Holle in 1539. In Old English 'hol' means a deep place in a steam'. Below Haining in Nether Heworth. 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}.


28


62


NZ2862



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

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