Felling, Turnwater Fishery

HER Number:
12280

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Felling, Turnwater Fishery

Place:
Felling

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:
Turnwater in 1344. 'Turn' is a variant of Old English 'trun' meaning circular or round. Owned by the bishop of Durham. Below Friar's Goose at NZ 275 635. 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:
281

Northing:
632

Grid Reference:
NZ281632

Lats/Lons:

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