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The Lismore Landscape Project

Project Directors

Collaborating institutions and Project members

Financial and logistical Support

Research Aims

The Lismore landscape project will provide a multi-period digital analysis of the changing environment and socio-political configuration of the island and from the first human occupation until modern times, concentrating on the period 1000 BC--1000 AD, through a series of inter-related methods.

  • Examination of the ancient environment, co-ordinated by Dr Rupert Housley
  • Aerial, geophysical, topographical and surface survey
  • Selective excavation

Current results

The results of the desk-top assessment were presented at the Archaeological Research in Progress conference for West central Scotland (jointly organised by the Council for Scottish Archaeology and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland) in Glasgow on 25th May, 2002.

Desktop assessment [PDF]

2002 season (survey): Redhouse, D. I., Anderson, M. Cockerell, T. Gilmour, S. Housley, R. Malone, C. and Stoddart, S. 2002. Power in Context: The Lismore Landscape project. Antiquity 76 (294) (PDF).


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