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Single Context Planning (SCP) is most gainfully applied when recording complicated and deeply stratified sites and it has been used successfully during rescue and research excavations. Although SCP can also be used for shallow rural sites it would be wasted on prehistoric sites in deep geological deposits: the former can nowadays much more efficiently be planned electronically with Geographical Information Systems (GIS, Pen-mapping), whereas the latter with little differentiated layer build-up needs systematic arbitrary layer subdivision (spits), concentrating on geological sampling and an accurate 3D-finds location.
The SCP method defines, draws - manually or digitally - and describes stratigraphically related units within a fixed site grid or world grid station point, while the interpretation is applied at various levels of grouping single units during analysis. The procedures are applied to a structured database, which links eventually all information from spatial and descriptive excavation records to finds and sample data to form a chronological site history.