Jarrow, full' yare in Pole Fishery
Jarrow, full' yare in Pole Fishery
HER Number
12249
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Jarrow, full' yare in Pole Fishery
Place
Jarrow
Map Sheet
NZ36NW
Class
Agriculture and Subsistence
Site Type: Broad
Fishing Site
Site Type: Specific
Fish Weir
General Period
MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Medieval 1066 to 1540
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Full' yare in Pole in 1128, Fuliare in 1195, Fulyare in 1313, Fule yare in pul, (le) Pulyare in 1370 to 1578, Pul(l)e, Pult, 3ar, 3aare. 'Ful' is old English for foul, dirty weir. 'Pul' is a pool or pond. One of the monk's weirs in Jarrow. The 'pol' may have been Jarrow Slake. 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}.
Easting
433900
Northing
565900
Grid Reference
NZ433900565900
Sources
Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61