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Artifact ID BC 0703/1545
Class amorphous
Material copper-base
Site Ban Chiang BC
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze or copper
Where Cut: in half lengthwise
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: This sample is composed of islands of metal embedded in a matrix either of slag or of ceramic mold The islands are cored dendritic, single phase. Vincent Pigott has suggested that this may be the remains of something cast in a lost-wax process; the ceramic may be the remains of the core.
BC 0703/1545<br>elongated sphere
BC 0703/1545<br>elongated sphere
BC 0703/1545<br>elongated sphere

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