Tyne and Wear HER(12269): Gateshead, Omper Fishery - Details
12269
Gateshead
Gateshead, Omper Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Omper in 1128. 'Per' might be a misspelling of yare. 'Cuiper' from the old English 'cype-gear' meaning Kepier. Weir with kipes and osier (willow) baskets for trapping fish. An episcopal weir east of the Tyne Bridge. 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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NZ2463
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61