# 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…

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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

# 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.

Speculative0

## 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)

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 2

[Glozel dans l'histoire de l'archéologie française: sources, questionnements et perspectives (colloquium programme and abstracts)](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKKNN50WZ/glozel-dans-lhistoire-de-larcheologie-francaise-sources)

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes et al. 2024

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

## Cite it

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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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