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Slag Layer -- Layer rich in ashy industrial waste containing many pieces of slag as well as fragments of furnaces and tuyere pipes. Layer scatters throughout the excavated square, below the debris of the fort and over a layer containing no industrial waste. -- Located below destruction layer of fort's western wall. Represents last stage of occupation, post original use of the fort, related to the secondary use for copper smelting.
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Locus above: 154 -- Locus below: 161
Stamped shard, hammerstone and pestle, furnace fragments, particles of tuyere pipes.
West: L153 (fort western wall). East, North and South: inner sections
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Area stratum A2a
Represents latest stage of uilization of the area, when the fort was exploited for copper smelting. -- Over orange-reddish layer with no industrial remains
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Locus Number:
A 157
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