This article deals with a now lost runestone, which previously was known only from an unconvincing drawing from the 18th century, and therefore never accepted as genuine in the corpus edition Upplands runinskrifter. Some overlooked material in the archives show, however, that it was in fact a genuine runestone dating to the late Viking Age. It is also evident that the runestone fragment U520, which Richard Dybeck found at the settlement Björkholmen in 1870, originally formed a part of this stone. According to the fragmentary text the stone was erected by at least two brothers, Ingvarr and possibly Anundr, in memory oftheir father. This combination of names indicates that the stone was commissioned by the same magnate family known from a couple of runestones in the vicinity (U 513 and U 540) and which by some researchers have been connected to the Viking Age chieftain Ingvar the Far-Travelled. This connection is rejected by the present author, who suggests instead that another member of the same family might have played a role in some events in Swedish history after the death of king Stenkil in 1066.
Vid systematisk metalldetektering i samband med förundersökningen av ett boplatsområde (RAÄ 178:1) i Pryssgården, Östra Eneby socken, Östergötland, påträffades den 31 mars 2017 ett ovalt blyföremål ristat med runor.
This article discusses whether the rune-inscribed limestone slab Ög 231 from Östra Stenby Church in the county of Östergötland, Sweden, represents a runestone of traditional type, or if it should be interpreted as the remains of as an early Christian grave monument. The point of departure is some previously unknown recordsof the find circumstances, which claims that the stone was discovered in 1853 under the church floor, where it was used as lid over a walled grave containing the skeletonof a male individual. A careful investigation of this new information, and whatis preserved of the stone, makes it likely that it was found in a secondary position, but that the stone still should be included in the group of early Christian grave monuments.
This article deals with the records of a personal name on two Viking Age rune stones from Stenkumla Church on Gotland (G 207 and G208). In the corpus edition Sveriges runinskrifter, the name is read askunu[ar] and kunua[r], respectively, and it is interpreted as a rare malename Gunnvarr. As shown in the article, the previous reading of thename on G 208 is incorrect, and the sequences of runes can thereforemore plausibly be construed as representations of the name Gunn-(h)vatr.
I samband med en arkeologisk förundersökning av ett område på fastigheten Solberga 4:2 i Köpings socken på Öland, påträffades hösten 2019 ett fragmentariskt runbleck av kopparlegering.
I oktober 2017 påträffades ett tidigare okänt fragment av ett tidigkristet gravmonument med runor (F1) i samband med en arkeologisk undersökning av Vårfrukyrkan i Skänninge, Östergötland (SHMM dnr 5.1.2-2017-00608). Fyndet gjordes av Rikard Hedvall i botten av ett schakt som hade grävts på kyrkogården på den norra sidan om det norra vapenhusets murar. Enligt Hedvall stod hällen stod på högkant i jorden strax under den marknivå som bör ha varit aktuell när vapenhuset byggdes. Jag granskade fragmentet hos Arkeologerna i Linköping den 12 april 2018. Stenmaterialet utgörs av kalksten, som under tiden i jorden har antagit en brun färgton. Fragmentet mäter 35 × 28 × 4–5 cm. Det har bevarat en ursprunglig rak kant, som är bearbetad med lodräta huggspår. Fragmentet är ristat på båda sidor. Sidan med den mest utarbetade ristningen har i beskrivningen nedan fått beteckningen A.