Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The locality of a find; the place where an object has been found: as, the find-spot of these coins is unknown.
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Examples
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Archaeologists range from those who blithely ignore the Italian find-spot to those who think that the design themes were specially chosen by the Athenian artists with the Etruscan funerary market in mind.
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The term "well-documented provenance" refers to an object's ownership history and should not be confused with archaeological "provenience," the find-spot of an object.
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An inscribed stone bar, rectangular in shape, bears the ye-dharmma formula in South Indian characters of the fourth century A.D., thus proclaiming the Buddhist character of the shrine near the find-spot (site I) of which only the basement survives.
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7. Although it is regrettable that the brooch's original context is unknown, such prestige objects could travel some way from their point of origin, so a find-spot in itself might not have necessarily shed light on its origin.
Culture Minister defers export of two outstanding Anglo-Saxon finds Thatsnews 2006
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7. Although it is regrettable that the brooch's original context is unknown, such prestige objects could travel some way from their point of origin, so a find-spot in itself might not have necessarily shed light on its origin.
Archive 2006-08-01 Thatsnews 2006
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