# 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…

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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.

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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[A medieval core enlarged by modern forgery](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDW57VT5Q7/a-medieval-core-enlarged-by-modern-forgery)

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

[Glozel: résultats des recherches effectuées entre 1983 et 1990 à la demande du ministère de la Culture](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ9F43PS6/glozel-resultats-des-recherches-effectuees-entre-1983-et)

Guilaine 2023

SRC

[Résumé des recherches effectuées à Glozel entre 1983 et 1990, sous l'égide du ministère de la Culture](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ8461BM1/resume-des-recherches-effectuees-a-glozel-entre-1983-et-1990)

Daugas et al. 1995

SRC

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