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Dowris Hoard, a Common card
The Dowris Hoard is the name of an important Bronze Age hoard of over 200 objects found in Dowris, County Offaly, Ireland.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 49
- DEF
- 29
- Power
- 78
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 3,200
Power 78 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 20 % of WikiCards cards.
Dowris Hoard quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dowris Hoard card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Current thinking tends to see it as a ______, possibly over a very long period, of ritual deposits into a lake.
Answer
series. Current thinking tends to see it as a series, possibly over a very long period, of ritual deposits into a lake. From the Dowris Hoard article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Arsenal. Arsenal 55 · Isn't Life Wonderful 52 · Dowris Hoard 49 · Battalia à 10 46 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Items from the deposit are currently split between two institutions: the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin and the British Museum in London.
- The hoard, mostly of objects in bronze, was probably a ritual deposit, perhaps for religious purposes, though the records of the discovery, by farm labourers in the 1820s, do not allow it to be sure if it was one deposit, or a series.
- Current thinking tends to see it as a series, possibly over a very long period, of ritual deposits into a lake.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dowris Hoard article was read about 3,200 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 49 and blocks with 29: each hit it takes is cut by 12 %.
How to get Dowris Hoard
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dowris Hoard (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Notafly, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
