Lejja is a community comprising 33 villages in Enugu State of South-Eastern Nigeria. It is populated by the Igbo people and located about at 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] is likely the first village square in Lejja contains over 800 blocks of slag weighs between 34 and 57 kg. Geophysical investigations have located buried iron slag in several other locations in the community.[3]
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- ^ 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.
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