Slag-heaps Sentence Examples

slag-heaps

  • In Hellenic times Soli had little political importance, though it stood a five months' siege from the Persians soon after 50o B.C.; its copper mines, however, were famous, and have left copious slag heaps and traces of small scattered settlements.

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  • The slag heaps or pit mounds of closed mines have been put to many new uses.

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  • We are still dealing with the slums, slag-heaps, derelict land and foul rivers of the first Industrial Revolution.

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  • Physical evidence for ancient metallurgy existed in the form of large slag heaps but there was no contemporary mining.

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