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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: Hovslund Hærulfstenen Alternative Name: DR 15 / DK SJy 62Country: Denmark County: Syddanmark Type: Carving
Latitude: 55.140117N Longitude: 9.345033E
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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 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 |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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CharcoalBurner89 visited on 15th Apr 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Of course, I couldn't resist not visiting at least one rune stone on my first tour in Denmark. At the same time, it is also my first rune stone that I have ever seen.
XIII visited on 1st Dec 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
sba_dk visited on 5th Jan 2013 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5
Boeddel visited on 1st Oct 2010 - their rating: Amb: 4
Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 4 Ambience: 4 Access: 5
Official description:
http://www.kulturarv.dk/fundogfortidsminder/Lokalitet/86273/
Danish to English translation
1920 museum inspection
National Museum, Danish Department., Danish Prehistory
Hovslund Runestenens locality. [Hærulf stone].
1951 Miscellaneous casework
Gottorp Castle, Archäologisches Landesmuseum
Miscellaneous papers about Hovslund runestenens residence. Rune stone was abducted in 1864 by Prussian militar and transferred to the hunting lodge Dreilinden at Wannsee (Berlin). In oktover 1951 the stone was returned to Hovslund.
1956 museum inspection
National Museum, Danish Department., Danish Prehistory
Hovslund-rune stone.
1983 New inspection of protected sites
Forest and Nature Agency, 10 office
"Hærulfstenen". All well.
1993 Miscellaneous casework
Haderslev Museum
Neg. No. C 2935-37.
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