GP 19 Ardre Petsarve I

Context and Discovery
In 1900, Hugo Pipping (1901, p. 8) discovered the picture stone in a smithy, which belonged to Petsarve gård, south-east of Ardre church, where it remained for the following 12 years. Lindqvist (1941/42 II, p. 25) notes: “Picture stone of cist type, having served as a threshold in a smithy just west of the vicarage, worn away by footsteps, before in 1912, it was salvaged and presented to GF by the farmer Alfr. Olsson.” According to Lindqvist (1941/42 I, pp. 40, 47–48, 58–61; 1964), picture stones of the cist stone Type (see IX) were used either pairwise representing grave markers or in a group of four forming cist-shaped (grave or sacrificial) monuments. However, all known cist stones have been discovered in secondary contexts (Stenkvist 2014).

Measurements, Material and Condition
Lindqvist (1941/42 II, p. 25) describes the cist stone as follows: “Limestone slab, up to 15 cm thick. The obverse is worn away very regularly, but with numerous small traces of being hewn. The narrow sides, also severely worn, appear to have been levelled to form right angles to the obverse. The reverse is rough and very heterogeneous. The right corner extension is rather well preserved, the left is broken off. The convex curve of the upper edge is considerably askew, as the highest point is only about 37 cm, measured horizontally, from the upper end of the right side (at the corner extension), while the stone’s width at the upward-extending corners must have been almost 90 cm. From the corner extension downward, the stone’s width slowly increased. The right narrow side is preserved to a height of 28 cm.” The total height of the slab, from its preserved bottom edge to the highest point of the convex upper edge, is approximately 65 cm. An almost vertical crack divides the slab into two halves.

Description of Ornament and Images
According to Lindqvist (1941/42 II, pp. 25–26), “no remains of decoration can be determined with certainty, as at least the majority of the numerous traces of being worked with a chisel on the obverse are the result of the period when the stone was used as a threshold”.

Interpretation of the Imagery
No interpretation

Runic Context and Comments
In 1900, Hugo Pipping (1901, p. 8) observed clearly discernable remains of runes on the stone, however, without describing them in any detail. When Lindqvist investigated the monument in the 1930s, he seems not to have seen any rune-like carvings (see VI). Jansson/Wessén (1962, p. 221) assume that the runes had been rubbed off between 1900 and 1912, due to its continuous use as a threshold.

Type and Dating
The typical outline of a small gavel-like slab with wave-shaped upper edge, a so-called cist stone, is partly preserved. Most of those stones represent late-type picture stones, belonging to ʻAbschnittʼ C/D or E according to Lindqvist. There is only a very small group of Type B cist stones known to date (see in particular HALLA BROA V–VI). Lindqvist (1941/42 I, p. 44) regards the Petsarve slab as a late-type monument. As no decoration is left on the stone and the supposed runes cannot be verified (see VIII), the cist stone from Petsarve can only be roughly dated to between the 8th century and around 1100.

References
Pipping 1901, p. 8; Lindqvist 1941/42 II, pp. 25–26, fig. 313; 1964, p. 68; Jansson/Wessén 1962, p. 221; Stenkvist 2014 I, pp. 36, 38; II, pp. 6–7, fig. 4.

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