Moot Hill (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A moot hill or mons placiti (statute hill) is a hill or mound historically used as an assembly or meeting place. In early medieval Britain, such hills were used for moots, meetings of local people to settle local business. Among other things, proclamations might be read; decisions might be taken; court cases might be settled at a moot. Although some moot hills were naturally occurring features or had been created long before as burial mounds, others were purpose-built. Although the word "moot" or "mote," is of Old English origin, deriving from the verb to meet, it has come to have a wider meaning throughout the United Kingdom; initially referring to any popular gathering. In England the folkmoot in time came to be a more specific term for a local assembly with recognized legal rights and in Scotland the term is used in the literature for want of any other single accepted term.