It's the Don at Jarrow.
Going back to the original question about the 'fort of Arabs', I *think* it's suggested by Nick Hodgson (Principal Keeper of Archaeology, Tyne & Wear Museums) - he's certainly written about the name Arbeia. I *think* it's in Archaeologia Æliana, and I think the Andrew Breeze article is in dialogue/dispute with that, but I can't check any of this just now.
All best
Diana
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Subject: Re: [EPNL] Arbeia
At 10:53 28/05/2012, you wrote:
>Rivers and their estuaries aren't necessarily named the same.
>Sometimes the source of a name is a small stream that joins at that point.
Yes, I thought of Bede's monastery at Jarrow, which is on a peninsula
formed by the Tyne and a tributary whose name I forget. But if there
a tributary one at South Shields it can't have been very big.
Trevor
Trevor Ogden
Abingdon, Oxfordshire
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