ABSTRACT
The last chapter discussed movement practices that were on the whole spatially extensive and temporally specific. This chapter examines the mobilities that occur between the archaeological record, and the archaeological process, from an excavation in which the mobilities are spatially specific and temporally extensive. The excavations have revealed a large Iron Age and Roman period site, with many different features including 100,000 Roman pottery sherds, almost three tonnes of animal bone, and a series of trackways amongst a large settlement that joined together other large settlements nearby. Through the archaeological record, and the archaeological process that together make the archaeological operation, the chapter will examine the different modes of archaeological production and mobilization. Critical to keeping movement moving is the notion that archaeology’s entities continue to have resonance through continued mobilities and material memories that structure the use of space in the settlement, the in-site circulation of objects, and the people that lived in the settlement. These mobilities are observed through the various mobile operators that keep things moving even when they appear to be static and still. Archaeologists as much as archaeology are the object of study of this mobility.
