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Amber beads under a wind farm
Top image: Depot find from Ahlum (1500–1300 BC): selection of artifacts including neck collars and fragments, amber beads, a spiral hair ornament, needle fragments, and parts of an arm spiral. Source: C. Wehrstedt Lower Saxony State Office for Heritage

Amber beads under a wind farm

Wolfenbüttel, Germany. 1500 to 1300 BC. First cities. Known. Free

Known. A necklace of more than 156 amber beads was found with bronze jewellery.

The find is near Wolfenbüttel, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The jewellery dates to between 1500 and 1300 BC, more than 3,000 years ago. It lay where a wind turbine was going to stand. With the beads were neck collars, arm spirals, sheet-metal ornaments, and pins. The page says this is the largest single Bronze Age amber find recorded in Lower Saxony.

The page does not say what is still argued.

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/bronze-age-jewelry-hoard-00102705