Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field
No archaeological parallel for a medieval deposit of this kind is known, as the state team itself noted, and the full…
No archaeological parallel for a medieval deposit of this kind is known, as the state team itself noted, and the full stratigraphic record waited 28 years for publication.
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 onA medieval core enlarged by modern forgery
Counts against2 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
Cite it
Mysteries Department. (2026). No archaeological parallel for a medieval deposit of this kind is known, as the state team itself noted, and the full… [Evidence EVD0DEDXS7EJ0SP]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDXS7EJ0SP
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title = {No archaeological parallel for a medieval deposit of this kind is known, as the state team itself noted, and the full…},
author = {{Mysteries Department}},
year = {2026},
note = {Evidence, catalog key EVD0DEDXS7EJ0SP},
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