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Artifact ID BC 2188/530
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Ban Chiang BC
Period Middle Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze.
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: Cored dendritic, with extensive interdendritic corrosion. Some gas and shrinkage porosity and corroded strain lines are visible. It is impossible to say if there was once a second phase because of the corrosion; from the composition (~15% tin), there should have been.
BC 2188/530<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Round cross section.
BC 2188/530<br>Cross section diameter=0.4 cm. Round cross section.

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