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Artifact ID DK 134/328
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Don Klang
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: This may be alpha in a featureless gamma matrix. The PIXE is very erratic, showing very high levels of tin--up to 44%. It is otherwise like DK128, with unidirectional major twinned alpha and small multidirectional bits in a pattern resembling Widmanstätten structure.

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DK 134/328<br>Total length of all pieces=3.2 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Round cross section.
DK 134/328<br>Total length of all pieces=3.2 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Round cross section.

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