Law Ting Holm

Law Ting Holm (also known as Tingaholm[2]) is a small promontory at the north end of the freshwater Loch of Tingwall, Mainland Shetland, Scotland.

[4] In the 1570s Earl Robert Stewart moved the thing to nearby Scalloway Castle, although the holm was used once more in 1577 when over 700 Shetlanders brought a complaint against the local Foud, Lawrence Bruce, before royal commissioners from Edinburgh.

Excavation undertaken in 2011 as part of the HERA funded Assembly Project revealed the remains of a Late Iron Age/ Pictish settlement at the Law Ting Holm but did not produce clear evidence of later activities.

The parish names Sandsting, Aithsting, Delting, Lunnasting and Nesting all suggest that a wider network of local thing sites once operated in the islands .

[22] The Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) premièred Chris Stout's composition Tingaholm in Lerwick on 4 March 2012, a piece named after the Þing site.

Law Ting Holm