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Artifact ID BT 551/1296
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Ban Tong
Period Middle Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze or copper
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: Most of the specimen shows fine cored dendrites, with heavy interdendritic corrosion. Interspersed in some areas are large globular areas of untwinned alpha dendrite.
BT 551/1296<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Round cross section.

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