# About 15 of the 39 TL dates obtained by 1979, including some inscribed tablets, fall between about 700 BC and AD 100…

> About 15 of the 39 TL dates obtained by 1979, including some inscribed tablets, fall between about 700 BC and AD 100, and zircon TL excluded artificial…

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[Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)Evidence

Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

# About 15 of the 39 TL dates obtained by 1979, including some inscribed tablets, fall between about 700 BC and AD 100…

About 15 of the 39 TL dates obtained by 1979, including some inscribed tablets, fall between about 700 BC and AD 100, and zircon TL excluded artificial irradiation as a way of faking them.

Suggestive0

## 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)

Counts against2 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 3

[Mesures de la thermoluminescence de grains de zircon extraits de deux prélèvements de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ5D5J899/mesures-de-la-thermoluminescence-de-grains-de-zircon)

Zimmerman 1976

SRC

[Thermoluminescence and Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHPBC6CAF/thermoluminescence-and-glozel)

McKerrell et al. 1974

SRC

[Thermoluminescence and Glozel: a plea for caution](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHPRE33G2/thermoluminescence-and-glozel-a-plea-for-caution)

Aitken 1975

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). About 15 of the 39 TL dates obtained by 1979, including some inscribed tablets, fall between about 700 BC and AD 100… [Evidence EVD0DEDXRNGBXFV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXRNGBXFV
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