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...

Surviving moot halls include: Moot Hall, Aldeburgh Moot Hall, Appleby Moot Hall, Brampton Moot Hall, Daventry Moot Hall, Elstow Moot Hall, Hexham Moot Hall...

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...

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...

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...