# A medieval core enlarged by modern forgery

> Still possible: The field held a medieval glassworks and some Iron Age and medieval material, and a small genuine core was enlarged by modern forgery…

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Answer · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

# A medieval core enlarged by modern forgery

The field held a medieval glassworks and some Iron Age and medieval material, and a small genuine core was enlarged by modern forgery that includes the inscribed tablets.

**Still possible** Answers **1** question0

## Where it stands

**Still possible** Two pieces of evidence for, one against. It needs two reviews to be accepted.

## What it predicts

- Objects with medieval dates will be glassworking waste, bone and plain ceramics rather than inscribed or figured pieces.
- A regional study will find medieval or post-medieval glassworks of the same type in the Bourbonnais hills.
- The inscribed and figured objects will cluster in the modern TL group once systematically dated.

## What would rule it out

- Inscribed tablets with signs cut before firing give concordant medieval or Iron Age dates across laboratories.
- The 2023 full report's stratigraphy shows no medieval glassworking at all.

## Evidence 2 for · 1 against

[The 1983 state trenches found glassworking debris in every trench inside the site, nothing in the two outside it, and…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDXRTBB9HV/the-1983-state-trenches-found-glassworking-debris-in-every)

Supported

FOR

[The roughly 40 TL and radiocarbon dates fall into three groups, Iron Age to Gallo-Roman, medieval centred on the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDXRZZQQKS/the-roughly-40-tl-and-radiocarbon-dates-fall-into-three)

Supported

FOR

[No archaeological parallel for a medieval deposit of this kind is known, as the state team itself noted, and the full…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/evidence/EVD0DEDXS7EJ0SP/no-archaeological-parallel-for-a-medieval-deposit-of-this)

Speculative

AGAINST

## The questions it answers

[Are the inscribed tablets of Glozel ancient objects, and if so from what period?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTMA3SG8Y/are-the-inscribed-tablets-of-glozel-ancient-objects-and-if)

Open5 answers, none ahead

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). A medieval core enlarged by modern forgery [Answer ANS0DEDW57VT5Q7]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/ANS0DEDW57VT5Q7
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