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Artifact ID DK 146/329
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Don Klang
Period Late Period

Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: This is a beta-tin martensite. The needles are very densely layered. A thin dark ring surrounds each bit of alpha--a separate tin-rich phase? The alpha is often twinned. As one would expect from a cross-section, the alpha is not unidirectional.

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