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<< Other Photo Pages >> U 170 (Vaxholm) - Carving in Sweden in Södermanland

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 13 May 2013  Page Views: 3763

Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: U 170 (Vaxholm)
Country: Sweden
NOTE: This site is 8.166 km away from the location you searched for.

Landskap: Södermanland Type: Carving
Nearest Town: Vaxholm  Nearest Village: Bogesund's brygga
Latitude: 59.407010N  Longitude: 18.301510E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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U 170 (Vaxholm)
U 170 (Vaxholm) submitted by Andy B : Magnus Källström from the Swedish National Heritage Board examines the rune stone Image credit: Torun Zachrisson (Vote or comment on this photo)
A Viking-era rune stone has been "rediscovered" near Vaxholm in the Stockholm archipelago after a group of university students stumbled across the historic rock that had been hiding in plain sight for nearly 300 years.

"It’s a very intriguing find, it shows that there is so much history yet to discover," researcher Magnus Källström from the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet) told The Local in reference to the 1,000-year-old stone.

The find took place last week while archaeologist Torun Zachrisson and a group of students from Stockholm University were on an excursion in hopes of finding a rune stone known as U 170.

According to Zachrisson the stone has "been missing" for 300 years, but was rumoured to be near Bogesund's brygga, a jetty just outside of the archipelago town that lies an hour east of the capital city.

The students were on their way back to university when they happened on the stone, most of it buried underground.

"On the last stop of the day on the excursion with the students, the sun was shining in the right direction and suddenly it was there at the edge of the burial ground," Zachrisson said in a statement.

Read more in The Local.

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 14.6km SW 235° Historiska Museet* Museum
 15.3km SW 235° Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities* Museum
 15.8km WSW 237° Medelhavsmuseet Museum Museum
 16.0km SW 235° Gamla stans runsten* Carving
 16.9km NW 307° Runriket* Standing Stones
 17.0km NNW 334° Örsta hällristning* Rock Art
 17.6km WNW 296° Täby* Carving
 23.8km WSW 255° Björklunds hage* Barrow Cemetery
 25.3km WNW 298° Hammarby 154:1* Sculptured Stone
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 26.5km WNW 297° Smedby* Sculptured Stone
 27.5km WSW 236° Skärholmen Domarringen* Stone Circle
 30.3km NW 313° Nordians hög* Barrow Cemetery
 30.9km SW 236° Slagsta Hällristning* Rock Art
 31.7km WNW 303° Runsa (Upplands-Väsby)* Stone Circle
 33.8km NW 322° Arlanda Mäby Rune Stone* Carving
 37.2km WSW 250° Nyckelby* Standing Stone (Menhir)
 37.2km W 262° Sånga 70:1 Cairn
 40.2km NW 305° Sigtuna U 389* Sculptured Stone
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 40.3km NW 306° Sigtuna U 390* Sculptured Stone
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 41.9km W 276° Vallbyåsen* Standing Stones
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 43.2km W 260° Hemlanden* Barrow Cemetery
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