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Recovered Hoard · Eberswalde, Brandenburg, Germany

The Eberswalde Hoard

The Eberswalde Hoard: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: TraditionBronze Age · found 1913 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

Diggers laying a house foundation at a brass works in 1913 struck gold a metre down: 81 Bronze Age objects, bowls and arm-spirals, two and a half kilos of it, the finest prehistoric gold ever found in Germany. The Red Army carried it to Moscow in 1945, and there it has stayed, a recovered treasure now itself lost behind a museum's locked doors, claimed by two nations.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: Germany's largest prehistoric gold find, 81 vessels & ornaments

How it was found: Found in Germany in 1913, a hoard of Bronze Age gold vessels; taken to the Soviet Union after the war and, like Priam's gold, still held in Moscow.

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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