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^ Since 1983, Massachusetts has had 3 other official state rocks: State Historical Rock (Plymouth Rock), State Explorer Rock (Dighton Rock), and State Building and Monument Stone . In 2008, a State Glacial Rock (Rolling Rock) was designated as well. [82] ^ A measure passed the Oregon Senate in March 1965 naming the thunderegg as Oregon's state ...
Einang stone (4th century) Tune Runestone (250–400 AD) Kylver Stone (5th century) Möjbro Runestone (5th or early 6th century) Järsberg Runestone (transitional, 6th century) Björketorp Runestone (transitional, 7th century) Stentoften (transitional, 7th century) Eggjum stone (8th century) Rök runestone (transitional, ca. 800 AD) Hogganvik ...
The farm Snottsta or Snåttsta, Old Norse: Snotastaðir, is still in the same spot, 1000 years after the rune stones were made as documentation of the rights of property of the estate. The Snottsta and Vreta stones are individual runestones known as U 329 , U 330 , U 331 and U 332 .
The runestone was discovered in the churchyard of Sanda church in 1863 [1] and is currently located in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities. It is classified as being carved in runestone style Pr2, also known as Ringerike style. The inscription depicts two scenes under an arching runic text band.
Of the three stones, one contains a total of 15 lines of 'text' on two sides. The map stone contains a map with some inscriptions. Paul H. Chapman proposes that the map depicts the landscape visible from the 1,075 feet (328 m) high White Mountain, the highest point in the vicinity of Spirit Pond, [ 3 ] or the northern tip of Newfoundland .
Östergötland Runic Inscription 66 or Ög 66 is the Rundata catalog number for a granite runestone that is 4 meters in height. The stone had been part of the Bjälbo church, and was moved into the churchyard in 1935. The inscription consists of text in the younger futhark carved in a serpent whose head and tail make a knot at the bottom of the ...
The Kensington Runestone is a slab of greywacke stone covered in runes that was discovered in Western Minnesota, United States, in 1898. Olof Ohman, a Swedish immigrant , reported that he unearthed it from a field in the largely rural township of Solem in Douglas County .
The Strängnäs stone. The Strängnäs stone (Swedish: Strängnässtenen), or runic inscription Sö Fv2011;307 (formerly Sö ALLHSÖDERM;77), is a runestone inscribed with runes written in Proto-Norse using the Elder Futhark alphabet. It was discovered in 1962, when a stove was demolished in a house at Klostergatan 4, in Strängnäs, Sweden. [1]