Tyne and Wear HER(12286): Gateshead, Quikham Drawwater Fishery - Details
12286
Gateshead
Gateshead, Quikham Drawwater Fishery
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Quikham Drawwater in 1344. Means 'a stretch of water for drawing, to draw a net through for fish'. Belonged to the bishop of Durham. 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