Ryton, Stani Pul Fishery

HER Number

12274

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Ryton, Stani Pul Fishery

Place

Ryton

Map Sheet

NZ16SE

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

Stani Pul in 1128, Stampul. Means 'stoney pool'. One of the bishop of Durham's fisheries equipped with four stelnettes. 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

415200

Northing

565100

Grid Reference

NZ415200565100

Sources

Victor Watts, 1986, Some Northumbrian Fishery Names II in Durham Archaeological Journal, 2, 1986, pp 55-61