ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the nature of excavation and archive in archaeology, and the terms on which the making of the archive is drawn into archaeological practice. The site dates from approximately 1800-1000 BC. Archaeologists of the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, University of Cambridge, undertook the excavation of the monument in 1996, in advance of gravel extraction that would destroy the site. Tim Ingold argues for the restoration of drawing to a position at the heart of anthropological research. It emphasise about drawing and about bringing the making of fieldnotes, sketchbooks and archive into drawing is the generative dynamic of improvisatory practice. In her philosophical writings, Hannah Arendt has drawn attention to the experience. She articulated the temporal condition it entails through writing about it, and through referencing literature. Time works in the drawing in a way that would not have been evident in the Bronze Age, and that was not revealed either by re-digging the ditches during the excavation.
