Tyne and Wear HER(12277): Gateshead, Suttel yar' Fishery - Details
12277
Gateshead
Gateshead, Suttel yar' Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Suttel yar' in 1128, Lut(t)el yare. Means 'little weir'. 'Lytel' is old English. One of the bishop of Durham's weirs, west 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