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Artifact ID DK 135/328
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: 2 pieces:one cross-section, one lengthwise in same mount.
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: Beta-tin martensitic wire. The needles are not dense, but definitely present. The grains of alpha are unidirectional in the longitudinal piece, scattered in the transverse sample. The matrix has many fine grain and subgrain boundaries visible at 600x.

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DK 135/328<br>Total length of all pieces=2.3 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Square cross section.

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