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Artifact ID DK 149/329
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 beta-tin martensite. A very fine structure: the alpha are small and the needles hard to resolve. There is a mosaic pattern of uneven grains across the sample. A dark, somewhat feathery (Sn-rich?) phase outlines both the alpha and the grain boundaries.

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DK 149/329<br>Total length of all pieces=3.1 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1-0.2 cm. Round cross section.
DK 149/329<br>Total length of all pieces=3.1 cm. Cross section diameter=0.1-0.2 cm. Round cross section.

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