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Artifact ID BCES 0820/2743
Class amorphous
Material copper-base
Site Ban Chiang BCES
Period Middle Period

Alloy: bronze.
Where Cut: in half lengthwise
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: Fine cored dendrites, with extensive interdendritic corrosion but with large patches of alpha+delta eutectoid visible. Large clumps of twinned redeposited copper fill some corrosion voids.

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