Tyne and Wear HER(12244): Jarrow, Ebbe yar Fishery - Details
12244
S Tyneside
Jarrow, Ebbe yar Fishery
Jarrow
NZ36NW
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Ebbe yar' in 1128, Hebbeiare before 1195. One of the monks yairs. 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}.
32
65
NZ3265
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61