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Deposit
- Main article deposit (bank)
- In politics, a deposit is a cash bond which must be lodged by electoral candidates with the electoral authorities, to be returned if they achieve a specified measure of success in the election and otherwise forfeit. In British Parliamentary elections the deposit is £500 and is returned to candidates achieving 5% of the vote. (Until October 1985 the qualification was 12.5% of the votes).
- In archaeology, a deposit is any layer context which has been lain down rather than cut. It is analogous to the geological stratum. Artefacts, ecofacts and structures are not considered deposits although they are found within them. Deposits can be natural or manmade. Natural deposits are usually waterlain or windblown whilst archaeological deposits are the natural by-product of activity and are created through formation processes .
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