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Artifact ID DK 126/320
Class wire/rod
Material copper-base
Site Don Klang
Period Late Period

Provenience Status/Description Metallography Elemental/Hardness
Alloy: high-tin bronze
Where Cut: cross section of shaft
How Mounted: lengthwise
Structure: Hot-worked and quenched.
Metallographic description: A high-tin beta martensitic structure. The alpha grains line up in the same direction; some alpha is twinned. The needles are very dense, so dense that the dark matrix is almost invisible. Nonetheless, grain boundaries are clear.

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