Tyne and Wear HER(12284): Hebburn, Uthwat' yar' Fishery - Details
12284
S Tyneside
Hebburn, Uthwat' yar' Fishery
Hebburn
NZ36NW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Uthwat' yar' in 1128, Vtuordeiare in 1195, Utworiare, Vthward' yare. 'Utweard' is old English for 'outer'. One of the monks' weirs. An out-yair is situated entirely in the course of the river and not attached to the bank at all. 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}.
30
65
NZ3065
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61