# 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…

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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.

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## What it means

Key question[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)

5 answers, none ahead yet

**Open** unchanged

Answer this evidence bears on[The inscribed tablets and most of the collection were made between 1924 and 1936, in or near the Fradin farm.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDW4WHEKN2/the-inscribed-tablets-and-most-of-the-collection-were-made)

Supports2 for, 1 against

**Still possible** unchanged

## 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

[On: 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)

**—** 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

[On: 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)

**—** 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

[On: 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)

**—** not judged

Ranked by how likely each is to move the key question, for the time it takes

## Sources 2

[Recollections of Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK3PS8267/recollections-of-glozel)

Garrod 1968

SRC

[À propos de Glozel: Rapport de la Commission Internationale](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJNXDSP88/a-propos-de-glozel-rapport-de-la-commission-internationale)

Gimpera et al. 1927

SRC

## Cite it

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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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