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Publication Account
Date 1997
Event ID 1017087
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017087
There is also a good view of Law Ting Holm from the carpark on the east side of the loch, where there is an information board. Tingwall was a good central location for an assembly place, and there was plenty of good pasture for the horses while their owners were at the assembly. At the north end of the loch is a small promontory with a low mound at its tip, and a stone-built causeway, some 40m long and 1.7m wide, linking the mound with the old shoreline of the loch. The mound was formerly a small islet, and the ground through which the causeway passes is still very boggy. The site has never been excavated. The holm was presumably the focus for the assembly, for very few people could gather there, and its situation guaranteed privacy.
According to tradition, Law Ting Holm was used between the 11th and the late 16th centuries. An account written at the beginning of the 18th century mentions 'three or four great stones' on the holm, where the judge and officers of the court sat, but this was again derived from tradition rather than contemporary information.
Information from ‘Exploring Scotland’s Heritage: Shetland’, (1997).