Tyne and Wear HER(12283): Heworth, Uth' yar' Fishery - Details
12283
Gateshead
Heworth, Uth' yar' Fishery
Heworth
NZ26SE
Agriculture and Subsistence
Fish Trap
Fish Weir
Medieval
C12
Documentary Evidence
Uth' yar' in 1128, Vtiare in 1195, Vth yare. 'Ute' is Old English for outside, distant or on the outskirts. 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}.
28
62
NZ2862
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61