# The 1974 to 1979 TL programme at Edinburgh and Risø dated about 15 objects, tablets and idols among them, to between…

> The 1974 to 1979 TL programme at Edinburgh and Risø dated about 15 objects, tablets and idols among them, to between about 700 BC and AD 100, with zircon…

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Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

# The 1974 to 1979 TL programme at Edinburgh and Risø dated about 15 objects, tablets and idols among them, to between…

The 1974 to 1979 TL programme at Edinburgh and Risø dated about 15 objects, tablets and idols among them, to between about 700 BC and AD 100, with zircon TL excluding artificial irradiation.

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[A genuine Iron Age and Gallo-Roman site](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDW67Z61T6/a-genuine-iron-age-and-gallo-roman-site)

Supports1 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

[Datation par thermoluminescence de céramique de Glozel: L'affaire de Glozel; Les mesures de thermoluminescence](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHRKN8QDW/datation-par-thermoluminescence-de-ceramique-de-glozel)

McKerrell et al. 1976

SRC

[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

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The 1974 to 1979 TL programme at Edinburgh and Risø dated about 15 objects, tablets and idols among them, to between… [Evidence EVD0DEDY76RHWP5]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY76RHWP5
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