GP 495 Tingstäde kyrka XI

Context and Discovery
The stone is integrated, with its obverse facing upwards, as the first step (counted from the top) of the free staircase, which is formed by stones jutting out of the masonry of the west wall of the tower, above those parts of the tower stairs that are entirely enclosed in the masonry and contain the stones GP 482, 484, 499–504 Tingstäde kyrka II–IX. The second step of the free staircase is formed by GP 483 Tingstäde kyrka X. In total, not fewer than 26 picture stones from Tingstäde church are registered in Lamm/Nylén 2003 – The stones Tingstäde kyrka I–XX were published by Lindqvist. In 1984, Beata Böttger-Niedenzu discovered GP 507–509 Tingstäde kyrka 21–23, and GP 494 Tingstäde kyrka 24. Two more stones, which are incorporated into the wall of the tower, were discovered between 1990 and 2002 (GP 497–498 Tingstäde kyrka 25–26). The first Romanesque building with a nave and an apsidal choir was erected during the 12th century. In the beginning of the 13th century, the nave was enlarged, and around the middle of the century the old choir was replaced by the present one. The Romanesque portal which today leads to the sacristy probably represents the choir portal of the 12th century church which was re-used in the new building. The tower was probably built together with the new choir, i.e., around 1250, but was raised by three floors during the 14th century.
GP 482 Tingstäde kyrka VIII
GP 484 Tingstäde kyrka IX
GP 499 Tingstäde kyrka II
GP 500 Tingstäde kyrka III
GP 501 Tingstäde kyrka IV
GP 502 Tingstäde kyrka V
GP 503 Tingstäde kyrka VI
GP 504 Tingstäde kyrka VII
GP 483 Tingstäde kyrka X
GP 507 Tingstäde kyrka 21
GP 508 Tingstäde kyrka 22
GP 509 Tingstäde kyrka 23
GP 494 Tingstäde kyrka 24
GP 497 Tingstäde kyrka 25
GP 498 Tingstäde kyrka 26

Measurements, Material and Condition
The step represents an almost entirely preserved small picture stone. Some parts of it (right-hand edge and root) are hidden in the masonry. “Limestone slab, 18.5 cm thick. The obverse is dressed and now severely abraded by footsteps. The narrow side facing anyone walking up the staircase juts out of the masonry for a length of 40 cm and represents the left vertical side of the original picture stone. The narrow side facing east, which once formed the picture stone’s top, survives to a length of 33 cm. The first-mentioned narrow side is slightly concave longitudinally, while the picture stone’s top edge is convex to a higher degree. Both sides are hewn flat at right angles towards the obverse, with chamfers in between” (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 134). Even though the stone’s surface is polished by footsteps, the carvings are still easily discernible.

Description of Ornament and Images
Lindqvist (1941/42 II, p. 134) describes the carvings as follows: “The decoration consists of carved lines in the roundel and its corona as well as slightly chiselled fields, which form two grooves along the chamfers of the surviving narrow sides and fill every second of the roundel’s crescent fields as well as the inner spandrels between the corona’s circles. The roundel’s diameter is 22.5 cm, not counting the corona. The drawing [by Olof Sörling], made after a sketch by [Fredrik Nordin], only shows the part of the stone that is jutting out of the masonry [ibid. fig. 542].” Another drawing by Sörling that includes the reconstruction of the abraded parts of the whirl pattern, is kept in ATA’s Run- och bildstenssamling.

Interpretation of the Imagery
No interpretation

Type and Dating
The stone represents an early-type ʻdwarf stoneʼ, i.e. Type A according to Lindqvist’s typology, dating between AD 400 and 600. Lindqvist assigns the stone to his ʻBurstypusʼ (1941/42 I, p. 28), named after GP 53 Burs kyrka I. This type represents the group of Type A ʻdwarf stonesʼ with convex upper edge and decoration corresponding to the large Type A monuments, forming “miniature forms” of them (ibid. 31). According to Hauck’s more detailed typology of the Type A stones (1983a, pp. 543–544), with the whorl as main motif, the ʻdwarf stoneʼ from Tingstäde belongs to the Havor-I-Typus (Typus IV). Rundkvist includes the stone in his typological study as well.
GP 53 Burs kyrka I

References
Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 134, fig. 542; Hauck 1983a, p. 544; Guber 2011, p. 150 cat. no. 82; Rundkvist 2012, p. 160.

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