The Lismore Landscape Project: Analysis

In Gaelic---in preparation

The project is aiming to understand the role, function and meaning of Iron Age settlements in their landscape context. How do individual sites or places relate to their local physical, social and conceptual environment? How do sites relate to each other? How important is visibility of the surrounding land and sea? What changes can be detected in economic practices? In addition to questions about the prehistoric past, Matthew Fitzjohn will be asking what these monuments and their surrounding landscapes signify to the current inhabitants of Lismore.

Figure (below): A 360 degree photographic panorama from Tirefour with approximate cardinal directions marked

More photographic panoramas are now available here

Digital technologies will be employed to present the results of the project. The research methods include:

• The use of Geographical information Systems
• The use of digital photography

A desk-top study of known archaeological sites preceded the fieldwork (2001--2). This study employed data drawn from the database of the National Monuments Record of Scotland (RCAHMS) and combined with digital mapping data of the Ordnance survey (OS) provided through the JISC/EDINA Digimap scheme. Analysis of these data included the following results:

• Analytical presentation of elevation, slope, aspect and drainage.
• Euclidean distance tidy sites
• Voroni tesselation of sites
• Viewsheds of sites (see below for viewshed of Tirefour)

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