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Artifact ID BT 814/1582
Class amorphous
Material copper-base
Site Ban Tong
Period Early Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: bronze or copper
Where Cut: in half
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: As-cast.
Metallographic description: A mix of fine cored dendrites and large globular dendrites. This may be a result of two phases cooling--one cools to the fine dendrites and one to the coarse. Within the globular bodies are inclusions with rings around them--two-phase?

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