Craft and StructureMediumShared inference from two records
Craft and Structure practice question
Text 1
A 1720 parish register describes the occupant of the mill house as a 'tanner'.
Text 2
Behind the mill house, excavators found a row of stone-lined pits with oak-bark residue in their bases and a scatter of cattle horn cores nearby.
Based on the texts, the authors would most likely agree that ____
- A. leather was tanned at the mill house in the early eighteenth century.Correct
- B. the mill house was a slaughterhouse.
- C. the register is inaccurate.
- D. the pits were dug in 1720.
Answer: A. leather was tanned at the mill house in the early eighteenth century.
A tanner in the register; bark-filled pits and horn cores (a tannery's waste) behind the house.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the mill house was a slaughterhouse.
- Bark pits are for tanning, not slaughter.
- C. the register is inaccurate.
- The finds confirm the register.
- D. the pits were dug in 1720.
- The pits' date is not given.
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