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Artifact ID DK 261A/405
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 is a high-tin bronze. The specimen consists of long strands of alpha oriented longitudinally. The matrix has some needles in a largely gamma matrix and may have slip lines as well.
DK 261A/405<br>Total length of all pieces=11.9 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Square/faceted cross section.
DK 261A/405<br>Total length of all pieces=11.9 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1 cm. Square/faceted cross section.

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