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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 ____

  1. A. leather was tanned at the mill house in the early eighteenth century.Correct
  2. B. the mill house was a slaughterhouse.
  3. C. the register is inaccurate.
  4. 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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