- The discovery of undefended, agricultural, and lower status sites.
- The role of Iona in the creation of sacred Christian landscapes.
- The date and form of monastic enclosures and buildings
- The chronology and function of crannogs.
- How unique is Dunadd?
- Early Christian Monuments – Landscape, monumentality and materiality.
- Where is the evidence for the Norse on the mainland?
- Where are the Norse settlements on the islands to go with the burials?
