Throckley, fishery

HER Number

12319

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Throckley, fishery

Place

Throckley

Map Sheet

NZ16NE

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

A fishery is mentioned in 1368.

Easting

416000

Northing

565500

Grid Reference

NZ416000565500

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. 161