Newcastle, All Saints Chapelry, medieval fishery

HER Number:
12288

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, All Saints Chapelry, medieval fishery

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Agriculture and Subsistence

Site Type: Broad:
Fish Trap

Site Type: Specific:
Fish Weir

General Period:
Medieval

Specific Period:
C16

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
A fishery in the Tyne is mentioned here in 1549.

Easting:
25

Northing:
63

Grid Reference:
NZ2563

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
V.E. Watts, 1988, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names III in Durham Archaeological Journal, 4, 1988, pp 53-59; M.H. Dodds, 1930, A History of Northumberland, Vol. XIII, p. 260