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Artifact ID DK 178/364
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Don Klang
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: not cut; all in sample
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: Only a small island in the interior remains uncorroded. That island has a beta-tin martensitic structure, with needles and twinned longitudinal alpha.

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