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Artifact ID BT 555/1303
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
Metallographic description: Very small grains, strain-marked and obviously worked. Many of the inclusions are flattened longitudinally. The annealing twins, however, are largely undistorted. The specimen is banded, showing microsegregation. Worked, annealed, some working. Cycle may have been repeated several times.

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BT 555/1303<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Square cross section.
BT 555/1303<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Square cross section.

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