Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
The 1927 international commission, digging under guard for four days, found objects only in loose disturbed earth with…
The 1927 international commission, digging under guard for four days, found objects only in loose disturbed earth with fresh root fragments and soft clay, and concluded they were not ancient.
What it means
Key questionAre the inscribed tablets of Glozel ancient objects, and if so from what period?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
Answer this evidence bears onThe inscribed tablets and most of the collection were made between 1924 and 1936, in or near the Fradin farm.
Supports2 for, 1 against
Still possibleunchanged
Next steps 3
1
Join the dates table (glozel_dates.csv) to tablet identities in Morlet's Corpus and the museum numbers, and mark which dated objects are inscribed; test whether inscribed objects fall disproportionately in the modern TL group.
~6 h
—not judged
2
Extract the full 1976 TL sample table (Persée racf.1976.2018) and the 2023 Guilaine-Miallier date lists into the dates dataset so every published date is in one machine-readable file with its laboratory and sampling surface.
~5 h
—not judged
3
Request access to the Musée de Glozel and the MAN holdings to photograph every TL-dated tablet's sign floors under low-power microscopy and record whether each sign was cut before or after firing.
~24 h
—not judged
Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes
Sources 2
Recollections of Glozel
SRCGarrod 1968
À propos de Glozel: Rapport de la Commission Internationale
SRCGimpera et al. 1927
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The 1927 international commission, digging under guard for four days, found objects only in loose disturbed earth with… [Evidence EVD0DEDXR5AMMAK]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXR5AMMAK
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author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDXR5AMMAK},
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