A moot hill or mons placiti (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place, as a moot hall is a meeting or assembly...

have been somewhat larger than had been imagined and revealed that the Moot Hill had at some point been surrounded by a ditch and palisade; marking it...

of the ceremonies held at Scone, and the judgments made from a top the Moot Hill. It is old sayings like this which frustrated historians, as the sayings...

Look up moot or moot point in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Moot may refer to: Mootness, in American law: a point where further proceedings have lost...

a moot hill or moot mound, where the elders of the hundred would meet to take decisions. Some of these acquired permanent buildings, known as moot halls...

Scottish coronations were a more pagan ceremony, including the use of the Moot Hill (the coronation mound). It is likely that Scottish inaugurations and coronations...

laws. Rivers or lochans were used if conveniently situated near to a moot hill, where the baronial court dempster would announce the death penalty. The...

The terms moot, mootness and moot point are used in both English and American law, although with different meanings. In the legal system of the United...

these trees grew often became known as "gallows hills". It is not clear whether the moot hills (justice hills) were also the site of the gallows. Some of...

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once stood. Moot hill was similar to the Hill of Tara in its prehistory importance, Moot hill or Statute hill was known as a Brehon hill, a judicial place...

functions over the ages such as fortification, moot hill, estate landscape feature, etc. The Castle Hill has also been referred to as the Castle Motte...

the 'Cameron's gathering' rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes BBC Alba, a television channel...

chose the Chapel Hill top to hold a 'Halloween' festival with a large bonfire, etc., much to the surprise of the locals. A Moot Hill of Chapelton is recorded...

of a suggestion that it was once used as a moot, court or justice hill and by association a gallows hill where a dule tree may have been located and...

BC. The remains of Driffield Castle, a motte-and-bailey castle, sit at Moot Hill. RAF Driffield was targeted by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War...

records moot hills near Craigie village, Knockmarloch and Highlangside. The barony would originally have had a Moot or Justice Hill and a gallows hill. Three...

Plantation lie off the Humbie Road. The Moot or Moat Hill in the Orry is also said to have been a moot-hill. The dwellings of Mid and High Boreland carry...

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once stood. Moot hill was similar to the Hill of Tara in its prehistory importance, Moot hill or Statute hill was known as a Brehon hill, a judicial place...

hall of Scone Palace. There was a procession to the nearby chapel at Moot Hill. The Honours of Scotland were placed on a table beside him during a sermon...

and was demolished, the site is now a large limestone quarry. A Moot hill or Court Hill survives near Boghall in the old Barony of Beith. Dobie states...

over the centuries into the Wymondham Abbey seen today. Earthworks at Moot Hill are probably a medieval ring-work dating between 1088 and 1139. It is...

links with nature. A similar idea seems to be associated with the Moot hill, or Boot Hill, at Scone, for the latter name comes from an ancient tradition...

church (at NS 4282 3639) in 1823, which was built on the old Judgement or Moot hill of the barony of Riccarton. Of the old church in the small churchyard...

via the Third part. It is named after the 'Green Hill' an artificial mound, a Moot, Law or Justice hill that once stood here. The settlement lay within...

Alexander III Coronation of King Alexander on Moot Hill, Scone. He is being greeted by the ollamh rígh, the royal poet, who is addressing him with the...

city. It contains (behind the Central Library) the historic site of the moot hill for Secklow (or Sigelai) Hundred. It is the site of the central retail...

Court Hill (Sussex), an archaeological site in West Sussex, UK Moot hill, historic mound where court cases might have been settled Courthouse Hill Historic...

familiar aspects of a feudal barony, including the possession of a moot hill or justice hill, here represented by 'Greenhills', as well as a thirled mill and...