Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
The 1983 state trenches found glassworking debris in every trench inside the site, nothing in the two outside it, and…
The 1983 state trenches found glassworking debris in every trench inside the site, nothing in the two outside it, and no Neolithic or Palaeolithic layer; radiocarbon on bone, ivory and charcoal gave the third to seventeenth centuries AD.
What it means
Key questionAre the inscribed tablets of Glozel ancient objects, and if so from what period?
5 answers, none ahead yet
Openunchanged
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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
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). The 1983 state trenches found glassworking debris in every trench inside the site, nothing in the two outside it, and… [Evidence EVD0DEDXRTBB9HV]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXRTBB9HV
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title = {The 1983 state trenches found glassworking debris in every trench inside the site, nothing in the two outside it, and…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDXRTBB9HV},
url = {https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXRTBB9HV}
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