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11. What made Brackenford seem worth investigating?
12. Which find first turned the site into an active project?
13. The evidence from old documents was eventually supplied by
14. What unexpected feature did the building remains reveal?
15. After the wall was analysed, it was identified as
16. What autumn activity has the team decided to prioritise?
(A) is correct. Tessa says a repeated pattern of finds from nearby fields was the real reason the site looked promising.
(B) is incorrect. Access from the keep owners helped but was not decisive.
(C) is incorrect. She rejects the idea that funding problems elsewhere caused the choice.
Associated Text: The real reason is that the local records office had quietly logged a long pattern of unusual finds, broken pottery and fragments of metalwork that local farmers had pulled out of the surrounding fields over decades
(A) is incorrect. Jewellery is something the team still hopes to find.
(B) is correct. The first important object was an awl, a metal tool used in leatherworking.
(C) is incorrect. A ceramic figure is only mentioned as the kind of object that can start other projects.
Associated Text: It was a small awl, the kind used for working leather.
(A) is incorrect. The private collection produced nothing useful.
(B) is incorrect. The county archive also failed to provide evidence.
(C) is correct. The confirming sketches were kept in the town museum's basement storeroom.
Associated Text: The breakthrough actually came from a place we hadn't expected: the basement of the small Brackenford Town Museum, where staff had been quietly looking after a series of nineteenth century antiquarian sketches in their storeroom.
(A) is correct. The surprising point is the highly regular arrangement of the building footprints.
(B) is incorrect. Their construction was ordinary.
(C) is incorrect. The buildings were not unusually large.
Associated Text: The footprints sit on a strikingly regular grid, far more carefully aligned than you'd expect for a village of this period.
(A) is incorrect. The Victorian boundary idea was only a local guess.
(B) is correct. Dating showed the wall belonged to a farmhouse demolished in the 1950s.
(C) is incorrect. The palace theory was rejected after analysis.
Associated Text: But once we dated the mortar properly, the truth turned out to be much more ordinary, it was actually part of a farmhouse pulled down in the 1950s
(A) is incorrect. A booklet is only a possible future project.
(B) is incorrect. Adult evening events were offered but not selected.
(C) is correct. The chosen autumn plan is to give schoolchildren hands-on workshops.
Associated Text: However, in the end we've decided that the most worthwhile thing we can do over autumn is run a series of practical workshops for local schoolchildren, where they can handle replicas, ask questions and even try a little excavation themselves.
Questions 17-20
Label the plan below.
Choose Write the correct letter A-G for each answer.
17bridge foundations
18rubbish pit
19meeting hall
20Fish Pond
The correct answer is F because the bridge foundations are where the main path meets the river in the north of the site, and letter F marks that point on the riverbank.
Associated Text: To reach them, take the main path from the entrance and follow it as it curves up through the centre of the site. Keep going until the path reaches the riverbank. The marker there, right where the path meets the river, shows the bridge foundations.
The correct answer is C because the rubbish pit is in the north-east corner where the keep wall meets the river, and letter C is at that corner.
Associated Text: When you reach the inside of the keep wall, follow that path north. The pit is tucked into the north east corner, where the keep wall meets the river. It dates from the time of the castle, not from the village itself, and we think it was used by the keep's medieval kitchens.
The correct answer is D because the meeting hall is the largest building footprint in the middle of the central plateau, and letter D is placed on that central building footprint.
Associated Text: One area we excavated early on uncovered the meeting hall. It's easy to recognise because it's the largest building footprint in the middle of the site, with the main path running along its eastern side.
The correct answer is B because the fish pond is reached by the left-hand path into the woodland, past the stream, and letter B marks the clearing in the woodland.
Associated Text: Finally, there's the fish pond. From the entrance, take the smaller path that branches left into the woodland and follow it past the stream. Before you come out of the trees, you'll see the pond in a sheltered clearing on your right. It's some distance from the river now, but it's possible the river has shifted its course over the centuries.
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