ABSTRACT
Recording An excavation is also served by a range of other people, apart from diggers, who support the work out on site in a variety of important ways. Some of the jobs they do are specialist ones which demand a high level of training, but others can be passed on to site supervisors and ordinary volunteers. The most important of these is the on-site recording of contexts. Policy on this can vary but many directors now believe that the best person to describe a context is the one who has just dug it. Digging certainly becomes more thoughtful and thorough when the prospect of having to fill out a record card begins to loom.
