Teams, Tonouithes yar' Fishery

HER Number:
12279

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Teams, Tonouithes yar' Fishery

Place:
Teams

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

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:
Tonouithes yar' in 1128, Tinnmuthes, Tuumuiches yare, Tourinthes. The original was probably 'Tonmouthes yare' - weir at the mouth of the River Team. It beonged to the bishop of Durham and lay in the township of Whickham. 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:
233

Northing:
627

Grid Reference:
NZ233627

Lats/Lons:

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