“A Garden in Time; memory in the Lismore landscape: a Tirefour Perspective” a short lecture by Dr Simon Stoddart at the Archaeological Research in Progress (ARP 2011) national day conference on Saturday 28th May 2011 at the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

This presentation will report on the information gathered during the Lismore landscape project, focusing on the broch of Tirefour which has now been phased through a radiocarbon dating programme kindly financed by Historic Scotland. This essentially shows a late foundation (c. 300 BC) of the broch with a long period of subsequent use of the monument, culminating in roosting owls once human occupation had ended.