| Hoard Name | Date of Contents | Year of Discovery | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coleraine Hoard | 5th century CE | 1854 | silver pieces |
| Derrynaflan Hoard | 10th century CE | 1980 | silver and bronze pieces |
| Dooyork Hoard | 3rd century BCE – 2nd century CE | 2001 | gold, bronze, and beads |
Deposits of valuable objects, called hoards, have been unearthed in many different parts of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Technological advancements in the twenty-first century have made it easier to locate hoards, but plenty of hoards were found earlier. For example, _____
Which choice most effectively uses data from the table to complete the statement?
Explanation
Context: The text concedes that twenty-first-century technology has made hoards easier to locate but insists that plenty were found earlier. The example must point to hoards discovered before that period.
Answer: C) the Coleraine Hoard and Derrynaflan Hoard were both found before 2000.
Why? The table dates the Coleraine discovery to 1854 and the Derrynaflan discovery to 1980, both well before the twenty-first-century advances. Two pre-2000 finds are exactly the evidence needed to support "plenty of hoards were found earlier."
Traps:
- A) Derrynaflan found in 1854 → 1854 is Coleraine's year of discovery; Derrynaflan was found in 1980.
- B) All three found since 1854 → accurate but useless as an example, since it folds in the Dooyork Hoard of 2001, a twenty-first-century find.
- D) Derrynaflan and Dooyork discovered in the 1900s → Dooyork was discovered in 2001.