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Artifact ID BCES 2020A/1982
Class prill
Material copper-base
Site Ban Chiang BCES
Period Middle Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: cross-section
How Mounted: cross-section
Structure: Post-casting treatment?
Metallographic description: Cast, either very slow cooled with some subsequent stress or annealed by accident. Irregular grains with occasional strain lines and twins. Much alpha+delta eutectoid between the grains. Another prill in this crucible was impure copper.
BCES 2020A/1982<br>

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