<< Our Photo Pages >> Böksta Backe - Sculptured Stone in Sweden in Uppland
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Multi-periodSite Name: Böksta Backe Alternative Name: Upplands runinskrifter 855Country: Sweden
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Landskap: Uppland Type: Sculptured Stone
Latitude: 59.768881N Longitude: 17.412279E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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SolarMegalith visited on 26th Aug 2016 - their rating: Cond: 5 Amb: 4 Access: 5
The Böksta runestone is 2.6m high, it is decorated with a representation of a man on horseback with a spear who is hunting animals. A smaller figure of man on skis with a bow probably represents a Norse god Ullr, while the birds might be Huginn and Muninn, in Norse mythology two ravens who informed Odin about news from Midgard.
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