23rd March 2011, 02:33 PM
This discussion appears to have conflated two separate but linked approaches to excavation and recording.
Single context excavation / recording is the system used by most archaeologists in the UK - it entails the allocation of individual unique context numbers to identifiable deposits (fills) and features (cuts, walls etc), with site plans indicating multiple contexts within some sort of phase or sub-phase.
Single context planning is a methodology used (particularly by MOLAS) for recording complex urban stratigraphy and involves the planning of individual contexts as separate entities on separate pieces of permatrace that can then be overlain - this is the system that leads to the situation described by Dinosaur.
Beamo
Single context excavation / recording is the system used by most archaeologists in the UK - it entails the allocation of individual unique context numbers to identifiable deposits (fills) and features (cuts, walls etc), with site plans indicating multiple contexts within some sort of phase or sub-phase.
Single context planning is a methodology used (particularly by MOLAS) for recording complex urban stratigraphy and involves the planning of individual contexts as separate entities on separate pieces of permatrace that can then be overlain - this is the system that leads to the situation described by Dinosaur.
Beamo