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Submitted by Thorgrim on Wednesday, 30 November 2005 Page Views: 6058
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   table 12 submitted by blingo
A multiple-choice quiz just for fun and we hope you found time to scratch your heads and search the web for the answers. No prizes and no competition, but how many did you know? We gave you a choice of three answers to each question and a lucky guess could be right!.
The correct answers follow below:
1_A Neolithic track of split ash planks over peat was discovered in 1970. Was the finder
John Sweet?
Raymond Sweet?
Serendipity Sweet?
*****In 1970, Raymond Sweet sent a piece of ash plank from Shapwick Heath to archaeologist, John Coles
2_Was the finder of the Sweet Track
An archaeologist?
A confectioner?
A peat worker?
*****Raymond Sweet worked for the Eclipse Peat Works near Shapwick.
3_Pete Moss lost a limb, but where?
Did he lose a leg at Lindow?
An arm at Armagh?
Or a hand at Andover?
*****Pete Moss is otherwise known as Lindow Man. Discovered in 1984 during peat cutting, Lindow Man lived during the 1st or 2nd century AD. One leg is missing from the well preserved body.
4_An Iron Age bog body known as Tollund Man was found in
Germany?
Denmark?
Holland?
*****Discovered in 1950, Tollund Man is one of the best preserved of all Danish Iron Age bog bodies.
5_He was naked but for
A cloak?
A cap?
A codpiece?
***** Possibly a ritual sacrifice, he wore only a pointed leather cap and a noose around his neck
6_The Colinda spearhead dates from the Upper Palaeolithic
Was it found at Star Carr?
Near Seahenge?
On Leman Bank?
*****The barbed antler spearhead was found in 1931 below twenty fathoms of water near the submerged Leman and Over sandbanks five miles off the Norfolk coast.
7_What or who was Colinda?
An archaeologist?
A vessel?
A farm?
*****The Colinda was a trawler – a type of fishing vessel
8_Flag Fen has a Bronze Age farm near a river. Is it
The Nene?
The Ouse?
The Humber?
*****The River Nene
9_The sea-going Dover Boat is plank-built. Is it
Neolithic?
Bronze Age?
Roman?
*****The Bronze Age Dover Boat is considered to be the most important prehistoric boat found anywhere in northern Europe.
10_What would you do with a crannog?
Eat it?
Wear it?
Defend it?
*****Crannogs are timber framed buildings located on artificial islands joined to the mainland by a causeway.
11_What would you do with a crater (or krater)?
Eat from it?
Drink from it?
Die from it?
*****Wine and water were mixed together in a krater – a large Greek vessel made of clay or metal.
12_“The Atlantic Celts” was written by
Barry Cunliffe
Simon James
Francis Pryor
*****This book, written by Simon James in 1999, argues that the people of Britain were never Celtic.
13_A celt with a small c is
A chopping tool
A cup
A coin
*****A celt is a type of bronze socketed axe or adze.
14_A radiate is
A chopping tool
A cup
A coin
*****Portraying the Roman emperor wearing a pointed solar crown, it is a coin from the 3rd century AD.
15_A resistivity meter is used to
Measure rates of corrosion
Identify buried structures
Resist temptation
*****The instrument identifies buried structures by sending an electric current through the soil.
16_Hopewell burial mounds are found in the
American Midwest
Yukon
Rockies
*****Centred in Ohio, the Hopewell complex dates from 100 BC to 500 AD.
17_In 1892, Vere Gordon Childe was born in
America
Australia
Austria
*****Famous for his massive syntheses of prehistory, he was born in Australia, but spent the whole of his professional life in Britain.
18_Gough’s Cave is a Palaeolithic site. Where is it?
Cresswell Crags
La Gravette, Dordogne
Cheddar Gorge
*****Excavated from 1927 onwards, Gough’s Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset is a very important Upper Palaeolithic site.
19_The Munsell colour chart defines
Soil colours
Crystal colours
Mineral colours
*****It is a colour identification atlas of charts to aid the identification of layers of soil, sediment, chert, pottery and rock.
20_Lorica segmentata is a type of
Roman pornography
Roman armour
Roman wine
*****It is Roman armour consisting of a cuirass of iron strips.
21_What would you do with a “striking platform”?
Stand on it
Hit it
Speak from it
*****A hammer stone was used to strike the platform of a flint core thus detaching flakes which would then be worked into flint blades.
Answers verified by Adkins’s Handbook of British Archaeology, the Penguin Archaeology Guide and Francis Pryor’s Britain BC
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Re: (Score: 1)
by nicoladidsbury on Sunday, 13 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Hmm, I only know the answers to a few. Seems like I have a bit of "Web Ratching" to do, otherwise these questions will nag me, and keep me awake! | [ Reply to This ]
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by AngieLake on Sunday, 13 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | I only know three of these! Easy off Thogrim!! The one I liked best was the site-hunt you did about a year ago, where each answer led you to a clue for the next site - a treasure hunt, I guess. | [ Reply to This ]
- Re: by Thorgrim on Monday, 14 November 2005
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by maesi on Saturday, 26 November 2005
(User Info | Send a Message) | | good quiz, thanks thorgrim..i am just two answers short and i have enjoyed rummaging around for the answers | [ Reply to This ]
- Re:quiz by Thorgrim on Saturday, 26 November 2005
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