Photomicrograph Database

Artifact ID BT 0555/1303
Negative Number NS201
Magnification 200x
Etchant AH/HP, FeCl3, K2Cr2O7
Photo Date 6/16/2000

Alloy

bronze.

Structure

Post-casting treatment

Metallographic Description

Very small grains, strain-marked and obviously worked. Many of the inclusions are flattened longitudinally. The annealing twins, however, are largely undistorted. The specimen is banded, showing microsegregation. Worked, annealed, some working. Cycle may have been repeated several times.




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