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Today's recyclers can now conceivably lay claim to a rich, bloody, brawny heritage, if a new Viking discovery is any indication. The famed Norse warriors, many of whom settled parts of eastern and northern England in the middle ages, recycled as they fought, new excavations in the united kingdom suggest.
An 11th-century metalworking site recently discovered in the city of york is likely evidence of a makeshift recycling center, where vikings took weapons for reprocessing after battle, according to historian Charles Jones, organizer of the Fulford Battlefield Society, which advocates preserving the battle site against potential development.
Jones and his teem have found hundreds of pieces of ironwork-including axes, sword parts, and arrow heads-along with lumps of meted-down iron and the remains of smelting pits. "we found several 'smithing hearth bottoms'-the remains of the molten metal which dribbles down during the reprocessing of the weaponry ironwork," he told the York press. "the iron finds support the idea that metal was gathered and recycled in the area just behind where the fighting took place," Jones said. The artifacts are currently undergoing X-ray analysis at the University of York. The university's Soren Sindbk said the tests should reveal whether the corroded items were forged using Norse ironwork, which involved using distinctive alloys of soft iron and hard steel. "the vikings were very skillful metalworkers," said archaeologist Sindbk. "their weaponry is famous for the way iron is treated. Any metal was a precious material that would be recycled," he added. "whoever won a fight in this period would collect what was left on the battlefield."
Though he knows of no other battlefield examples of viking recycling, evidence of reuse of metal and other materials has been found at other viking sites, Sindbk said. Recent excavations in York, which was captured and settled by the Scandinavian seafarers in 866, for instance, show that vikings recycled boats for building material for houses and even sidewalks.
Jones believes viking forces worked on the metal in 1066 after defeating english warriors at the battle of Fulford, a village long since subsumed by the expanded city of York. The historian's team believes the vikings were forced to abandon their recycling work five days latter by a second English attack, the battle of stamford bridge, led by english's king harold II. The viking leader in the battle, king harld III of Norway, was killed and his forces routed. The english king lost his own life the following month, when his war-weary troops were defeated at the battle of Hastings by William, Duke of Normandy, who became the new English king.
Project leader Jones, author of The Forgotten Battle of 1066, Fulford, is and amateur historian, and many of the artifacts were uncovered not during professional archaeological excavations but by metal-detector enthusiasts. But that "doesn't at all devalue "the discovery, said archaeologist Allan Hall of the university of york. The Fulford Battlefield Society is "working in close cooperation with the archaeological establishment," Hall said. "archaeology has a long tradition of amateurs taking part."

1. what is said about today's recyclers at the beginning of this passage?
A. they recycle things that are discovered at the viking settlements.
B. they are rich, bloody and brawny as their viking ancestors.
C. they may have inherited the recycling tradition from the vikings
D they recycled the same things that the vikings recycled

2 what had archaeologists known about viking recycling before the weapon recycling center was discovered?
A the vikings recycled metal and other materials for daily use.
B the vikings only recycled metals because they were precious/
C the vikings were the only people at that time who used alloys in reprocessing weapons.
D recycling centers were usually found behind the battlefields.

3 what do we know about the Fulford Battlefield Society?
A it is an organization of professional and amateur historians.
B it strives for preserving the viking recycling site against potential development.
C it assisted professional archaeologists in the excavation of the viking recycling center.
D it is an amateur organization cooperating closely with professional archaeologists.

The given answers to the three questions are B D A, while my answers to the questions are C A D. I am rather confused by the given answers, PLZ help me to check the answers. thanks!
  

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I can only agree with your answers. 1. what is said about today's recyclers at the beginning of this passage?

  • I can only agree with your answers.
  • 1.
  • what is said about today's recyclers at the beginning of this passage?
  • A.
  • they recycle things that are discovered at the viking settlements.
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I can only agree with your answers.

1. what is said about today's recyclers at the beginning of this passage?
A. they recycle things that are discovered at the viking settlements. Not in the passage
B. they are rich, ****** and brawny as their viking ancestors. No - only a heritage is claimed.
C. they ma

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