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A local historian claims that the garden wall of the manor dates from the Tudor period, around 1550.

Which finding, if true, would most directly support the claim?

  1. A. The wall is built of narrow bricks in the pattern used only in the region between 1520 and 1580, and a dated brick of 1548 is set in its base.Correct
  2. B. The manor house was rebuilt in 1720.
  3. C. The wall is two metres high.
  4. D. Tudor gardens often had walls.

Answer: A. The wall is built of narrow bricks in the pattern used only in the region between 1520 and 1580, and a dated brick of 1548 is set in its base.

A dated brick and a period pattern.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. The manor house was rebuilt in 1720.
The house's date does not fix the wall's.
C. The wall is two metres high.
Height is not date.
D. Tudor gardens often had walls.
A generality.

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