# The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and…

> The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and the assemblage mixes Palaeolithic…

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# The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and…

The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and the assemblage mixes Palaeolithic, Neolithic and alphabetic types that no Iron Age culture produced together.

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

Counts against1 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

[Glozel and the two cultures](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDHQ9YRJ7M/glozel-and-the-two-cultures)

Renfrew 1975

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

[The Glozel Forgeries](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJQ6TVZS8/the-glozel-forgeries)

Pradenne 1930

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The state's trenches found no Iron Age layer, the inscribed tablets with laboratory dates are medieval or modern, and… [Evidence EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY7PFFADZ
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