Heworth, Sueor Fishery

HER Number:
12276

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Heworth, Sueor Fishery

Place:
Heworth

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C12

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Sueor in 1195, Suere in 1279, Suor. 'Sewiere' is Old French for 'channel to carry off overflow from a fishpond'. After 1299 the word becomes sewer, syver, syre, seweres. Owned by the prior of Durham. Trespassed beyond its allowed extent by 51 Fathoms in 1279. 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}.

Easting:
28

Northing:
62

Grid Reference:
NZ2862

Lats/Lons:

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