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MALE, July 13 (HNS) – A group of people digging a well at a construction site in Haa Dhaal atoll Nellaidhoo has found a ceramic jar with silver jewellery three days ago. Nellaidhoo Council President Mohamed Rasheed said the jar, found buried a foot deep was uncovered from a plot in an area authorities recently started granting land plots for living.  The brown jar contained four silver necklaces, five diamond-studded rings, earrings, a piece of opium or ambergris in a little tin and several copper coins.  Rasheed estimated that the maximum height of the brown jar would be one foot and was buried with the top of the jar sealed by a copper plate.  Although the jar is believed to be ages old, the jewellery had no change to its appearance.  The jar and jewellery are currently with the people who uncovered it but the council has sent a letter seeking the jewelleries. “We haven’t heard from them yet, but once we get it we plan to hand it over to the National Heritage Department,” he said.  The Island Council President further noted that some of the elders of the island identified that the jewelleries were a type used in earlier times. Despite many believing that the little of piece in the tin was ambergris some say that it was a piece of opium. The jar was found in what is now the woods, but the residents of the island say that an area close to where the jar was found was inhabited earlier.