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Artifact ID BC 0609/539
Class amorphous
Material copper-base
Site Ban Chiang BC
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze.
Where Cut: in half
How Mounted: both halves mounted cut side up in same mount
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: Cored dendritic; extensive interdendritic corrosion. Some grain boundaries visible. Some of the dendrites display what may be cross-hatched strain markings, or slip lines. Redeposited twinned copper has filled or partially filled some voids.

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