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IELTS AcademicListeningMultiple Choice Traps
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Audio Transcript Excerpt: EXHIBITION CURATOR: 'The Viking Gold hoard was discovered in 2014 by a metal detectorist in a ploughed field near Dumfries. Most antiquarians initially assumed it represented Anglo-Saxon loot buried after a monastery raid, but subsequent chemical metallurgy proved the arm rings were alloyed with silver sourced from the Abbasid Caliphate in Samarkand.'
What did metallurgical analysis reveal about the origin of the Viking arm rings?
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