This research that informs this conference paper was undertaken during fieldwork by the authors at Scalan Mill, Moray, Scotland, in June 2018 and at Garnethill in October and November 2018. Using an interdisciplinary methodology, the project aims to respond to the following questions:
What are the benefits to creative practice of situating Scalan Mills within the expanded field of writing?
How might our understanding of landscape be enriched by reading this place as a site of inscription which correlates with the archaeological concept of palimpsest?
How might this rendering of place respond to an interdisciplinary methodology which deploys archaeological fieldwork, site writing and practice-as-writing (photography, performance, spatial practice) to engage with the landscape as archive?

The research questions are interrogated by an interdisciplinary methodology which includes:
• Visual and data mining of the existing archaeological documentation of ‘field graffiti’
• Archaeological and creative field research including drawing, photography, video and audio recordings
• Reflexive research methods including participatory group work, spoken word and performance
• Active response to the site – ‘reflection-in-action’
• ‘Reflection-on-action’ methods, following the field trip.

Collaborative written by all the named authors, this multi-media conference paper was co-delivered at CHATMethod 2019 by Alex Hale and Susan Brind.