17th February 2014, 02:44 PM
Dino - that is correct.
David made the point in his final comment above - Single Context Planning (SCP) is the extremist version of Single Context Recording (SCR) as developed by MOLA/MOLAS - it is 'designed for specifically complex and deeply stratified sites and is unsuitable for anything else' and I fully agree with this view.
Kevin is correct to say that we have not really taken SCR much further than its initial development, although technology is enabling the recording process to be speeded up. Maybe there is not really any place that we can take it without radical revisions.
I have excavated overseas on sites where the Wheeler system is still in use (Kenyon worked with Wheeler in the UK and used it at Jericho, anyone who dug with Kenyon was still using it for a long time afterwards). I stil remember how I was once unable to open up the square adjacent to the one I was excavating in Mesopotamia (where it was clear that the all answers lay regarding size of buildings etc) because each individual square had to be recorded in a separate notebook, of a type only available from Heffers in Cambridge, and all the notebooks for that season had been started. At least with SCR I could have just gone to the photocopy shop with some blank recording sheets and then got on with digging the site.
Beamo
David made the point in his final comment above - Single Context Planning (SCP) is the extremist version of Single Context Recording (SCR) as developed by MOLA/MOLAS - it is 'designed for specifically complex and deeply stratified sites and is unsuitable for anything else' and I fully agree with this view.
Kevin is correct to say that we have not really taken SCR much further than its initial development, although technology is enabling the recording process to be speeded up. Maybe there is not really any place that we can take it without radical revisions.
I have excavated overseas on sites where the Wheeler system is still in use (Kenyon worked with Wheeler in the UK and used it at Jericho, anyone who dug with Kenyon was still using it for a long time afterwards). I stil remember how I was once unable to open up the square adjacent to the one I was excavating in Mesopotamia (where it was clear that the all answers lay regarding size of buildings etc) because each individual square had to be recorded in a separate notebook, of a type only available from Heffers in Cambridge, and all the notebooks for that season had been started. At least with SCR I could have just gone to the photocopy shop with some blank recording sheets and then got on with digging the site.
Beamo