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Artifact ID BT 533/1175
Class flat
Material copper-base
Site Ban Tong
Period Early Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze or copper
Where Cut: not cut; all in sample
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: The macrostructure suggests a nodule of slag with prills, but a pseudomorphic dendritic structure in the corrosion implies that the whole piece was once metal. The islands of remaining metal are heavily corroded cored dendrites. There are large gas porosity voids.
BT 533/1175<br>Thickness=0.2 cm.

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