# The state team placed the probable manipulation of the deposit in or after the second half of the nineteenth century…

> The state team placed the probable manipulation of the deposit in or after the second half of the nineteenth century, leaving open a pre-Fradin origin…

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Evidence · Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field

# The state team placed the probable manipulation of the deposit in or after the second half of the nineteenth century…

The state team placed the probable manipulation of the deposit in or after the second half of the nineteenth century, leaving open a pre-Fradin origin for some objects.

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[None of these.](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/answers/ANS0DEDW79AB0QG/none-of-these)

Bears onnone for, none against

**Still possible** was No evidence yet

## 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

[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 Scientific Analyses of Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDK60WJEK6/the-scientific-analyses-of-glozel)

Gerard et al. 2004

SRC

## Cite it

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Mysteries Department. (2026). The state team placed the probable manipulation of the deposit in or after the second half of the nineteenth century… [Evidence EVD0DEDY94G25G9]. https://mysteriesdept.com/r/EVD0DEDY94G25G9
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