Director
The Director holds the heavy responsibility of making sure the site is correctly excavated. A poorly excavated site can destroy years of historical finds. Once in a while the director gets his own two hands on a shovel and trowel!

Supervisor
The Supervisor is the slave driver! He makes sure everyone is working and not loafing. The Supervisor writes the layer descriptions, usually fills in the trench books, and aids the diggers with any excavating problems.

Planners
The Planner is the recorder of an overall picture of a site or parts of it, at a particular 'moment in time' . A grid of metal frame and string dividers, is placed on the ground to be drawn. Every detail is reproduced to scale on a translucent sheet taped to a drawing board. The  common physical position of a planner is standing, bending at waist, rear-end up. Every piece of slate, chalk, brick, tile, flint, coal, gravel, and mortar is drawn.  After the 'moment in time'  is drawn in pencil, it is inked in with black outlining and coloured, in appropriate colours representing the different items.

Finds Assistant
The Finds Assistant receives the finds from the site. The finds are processed by this person. A find may be flints, glass, brick, bone, slate, iron, claypipe, coins, and pottery. The importance of a find depends on the period of the site: Pre-Historic, Roman, Late Saxon, Norman, Medieval, Early Medieval, and Late Medieval.

The finds are kept in plastic bags with the proper label inside. For each layer an index card is kept to record the layer description, trench number, site code, year excavated, and layer number.

Digger
The Diggers are human shovels. A diggers' main utensil for excavating is the trowel It might be small, but how powerful it is!!! The trowel is used because when scraping each layer away, the damage to a find would be minimal.