- A
moot hill or mons
placiti (statute
hill) is a
hill or
mound historically used as an ****embly or
meeting place, as a
moot hall is a
meeting or ****embly...
- 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...
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Scone Palace include the
Moot Hill, the
crowning place of the
kings of Scots. A
replica of the
Stone of
Scone sits upon the
Moot Hill in
front of a 17th-century...
- 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...
-
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...
- of a
suggestion that it was once used as a
moot,
court or
justice hill and by ****ociation a
gallows hill where a dule tree may have been
located and...
-
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...
