Excavation of an undisturbed burial cave in the Baq'ah Valley, Jordan, dated to the earliest part of the Iron Age (ca 1200-1050 B.C.), has yielded among other things eleven complete pieces of iron jewelry plus some forty fragments. A preliminary analysis of five artifacts by metallographic examination of cross-sections and for elements by proton-induced x-ray emission is presented. Four of the five have a mild steel structure with a uniform distribution of carbon, placing them in a small group of the earliest dated steel samples from the eastern Mediterranean and making them the earliest pieces of steel from Jordan. It is not clear how the steel was produced; speculations are put forward.