Lejja

Lejja is a community comprising 33 villages in Enugu State of South-Eastern Nigeria. It is populated by the Igbo people and located about 14 Kilometers from Nsukka. It is the location of a prehistoric archaeological site which contains iron smelting furnaces and slag that dates back to 2000 BC.[1] The village square at Otobo ugwu [2] which is likely the first village square in Lejja that contains over 800 blocks of slag with an average weight , between 34 and 57 kg. Geophysical investigations have located buried iron slag in several other locations in the community.[3]

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  1. Eze–Uzomaka, Pamela. "Iron and its influence on the prehistoric site of Lejja". Academia.edu. University of Nigeria,Nsukka, Nigeria. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  2. OTOBO, Tarimobo Michael; TARIMOBO-OTOBO, Rugina (2016-03-31). "DIGITAL AND PALMER DERMATOGLYPHIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IJAW ETHNIC GROUP". International Journal of Forensic Medical Investigation. 2 (1): 25. doi:10.21816/ijfmi.v2i1.18. ISSN 2489-0286.
  3. "Geophysical investigations for locating buried iron slag at Lejja, southern Nigeria | Journalasjt". www.journalajst.com. Retrieved 2020-05-26.
  4. Eze-Uzomaka, Pamela Ifeoma (2000). Museums, archaeologists and indigenous people : archaeology and the public in Nigeria (BAR International series. ed.). Oxford: Archaeopress. ISBN 9781841712000.


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