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Artifact ID BT 508/1081
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Ban Tong
Period Middle Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze.
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: Post-casting treatment possible.
Metallographic description: Cored dendritic, with clusters of blue-gray nonmetallic inclusions and small patches of alpha+delta eutectoid. Corrosion has revealed some strain lines near the long edge, but no visible deformation of the dendrites.

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BT 508/1081<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Round cross section.
BT 508/1081<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Round cross section.

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