Moot is a long term project recording the medieval assembly sites of the UK.

Assembly sites were outside meeting places that were important for all levels of medieval society. They were used for local, regional and even royal governance. The courts met to discuss political matters and to maintain law and order, many see them as a precursor to parliament we know today.

The meeting places themselves were at features in the landscape such as ancient trees, crossroads, fords, bridges, standing stones and burial mounds. 

Due to the nature of these sites many have been lost to time or changed beyond recognition.

"Barbaric England of the scientists, the military men, and the politicians; let us turn away and contemplate the past before all is lost to the vandals."

 W.G. Hoskins, The Making of the English Landscape