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Artifact ID BT 496/910
Class amorphous
Material copper-base
Site Ban Tong
Period Middle Period-Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze.
Where Cut: in half
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: Large globular dendrites, with coring and alpha+delta eutectoid. The dendrites have a fringed appearance. Redeposited copper has collected in some of the corrosion voids. Inside many of the dendrites can be seen sub-grain boundaries, as well as curious depressions surrounding bits of inclusion.

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BT 496/910<br>elongated sphere

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