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Artifact ID BCES 0426B/1222
Class point
Material iron
Site Ban Chiang BCES
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: iron
Where Cut: cross section of tang
How Mounted: cross-section mounted cut side up
Structure:
Metallographic description: Two samples were completely corroded. The remaining one is ferrite with bits of pearlite in the grain boundaries in some areas. Inside some grains are small needle/minnow shapes that may be iron nitrite. (If so, it means that the metal had been heated in air and had picked up nitrogen.) There is not much visible slag and as one would expect from a cross section, what there is is not oriented in any one direction.
BCES 0426B/1222<br>Maximum dimension is for longest piece. Because of corrosion, the blade shape is unclear. Tang=broken.
BCES 0426B/1222<br>Maximum dimension is for longest piece. Because of corrosion, the blade shape is unclear. Tang=broken.

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