This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the
assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic …

Traces of Monaghan's early medieval population are still evident in the landscape in the
form of the archaeological remains of their settlements and places of worship. This paper …

In this paper the archaeological evidence for pre-eminent elite assemblies in medieval
Scotland is explored. The paper presents the first accurate reconstructed layout of an …

[W] e have been set free... by our most tireless prince, King and lord, the lord Robert... Yet if
he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the …

During the early medieval period (c. AD 400–1200), the Baltinglass landscape in eastern
Ireland may be interpreted as a major central place connected with important regional …

Although the study of assembly places in Ireland has advanced considerably in recent
years, much work remains to be done. Repeated themes in place-names, archaeology and …