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Artifact ID DK 218/388
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Don Klang
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: not cut; all in sample
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: Elongated areas of alpha float unidirectionally in a dark gray matrix. There are no martensitic needles, implying that the matrix is a quenched gamma phase, rather than beta. No grain boundaries are visible in the matrix, just dark blobs that may be inclusions.
DK 218/388<br>Total length of all pieces=1.6 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Round cross section.

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