Parish Find Location 
Stenkyrka

Present Location Classification 
Gotlands Museum Magasin Visborg

Material 
Limestone

Height 
14

Width 
14

Thickness 
6

Lindqvist Type 
A (ca. 400-600)

Lindqvist Shape 
Kerb stone
Unclear

Runic Inscription or not 
No

Measurements, Material and Condition 
The irregularly shaped limestone fragment is approximately 14 cm x 14 cm and is 6 cm thick. The surface is rough and uneven but may have originally been hewn flat. All the edges are secondary fractures.
CJL

Description of Ornament and Images 
There is an approximately 1 cm wide curved chiseled groove that runs across the face of the stone.
CJL

Interpretation of the Imagery 
No interpretation

Type and Dating 
The fragment is listed as a kerbstone by Gotlands Museum. Lindqvist included a category of kerbstones (Randsteine) in his first grouping of picture stones ʻAbschnittʼ A, which date to circa AD 400–600 (see also Oehrl 2019a, pp. 8–10). According to Lindqvist (1933, pp. 105, 107; 1941/1942 I, pp. 21, 31–33), the kerbstones formed an edge chain which surrounded a grave mound, possibly with an erected Type A picture stone in the center. However, no evidence has been found to confirm that any of the erected Type A picture stones were placed within a grave mound (Larkin 2023a, p. 50). Given the extremely fragmentary nature of the stone, it cannot be definitively determined to which category of picture stone it belongs.
CJL

Title
GP0445

Gotlands Museum ID 
GFC11021