Parish Find Location 
Lummelunda

Find Location 
Lummelunda church

Find Context Classification 
Church

Coordinate Find Location (lat) 
6408319

Coordinate Find Location (long) 
705522

Parish Present Location 
Lummelunda

Present Location 
In front of the western portal, re-used as step.

Present Location Classification 
Church
In-Loco

Coordinate Present Location (lat) 
6408319

Coordinate Present Location (long) 
705522

Material 
Limestone

Height 
90

Width 
113

Thickness 
10

Lindqvist Type 
A (ca. 400-600)

Lindqvist Shape 
Tall stone

Runic Inscription or not 
No

Context and Discovery 
The fragment, which represents the top part of an early-type picture stone, forms the second step of the stairs in front of the Romanesque tower portal. The present tower and the nave were erected around 1200, together with a Romanesque choir, which was replaced by the present Gothic style choir around 1250. The date of discovery is unknown. The stone was published in Lindqvist 1941/42 but no earlier records are mentioned there nor are any detectable in the archives. The earliest photographs kept at ATA depicting the tower portal with the picture stone date to 1909. Another picture stone fragment was detected in 1984 in the floor of the choir (GP 247 Lummelunda kyrka 2).
GP 247 Lummelunda kyrka 2

Measurements, Material and Condition 
The fragment, which represents a typical convex upper part of an early-type picture stone, is 0.90 m in height, the convex side facing west, and 1.13 cm in width. A small part of the left (south-western) pointed corner is broken off, the other one survived. “Limestone slab, 10 cm thick. The […] narrow sides are hewn flat at right angles towards the obverse. Whether there was a chamfer in between, cannot be decided anymore, due to abrasion. The reverse is rough” (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 100). The slab is not just lying on top of the first step but on a layer of mortar connecting both steps with each other. The lower part of the fragment, which means its broken (eastern) edge, is embedded into a mortar layer as well, connecting it with the door’s threshold and the foundation stones of the wall. The western third of the stone’s surface is grey in color, a bit rough and brightly lichened. The middle part is more reddish, with some fossil inclusions, and very much worn and smoothed by footsteps. The eastern third of the surface is relatively rough and darker than the rest of the stone. Overall, the surface is relatively even. At the right (northwest) corner is a crack in the surface.

Description of Ornament and Images 
“Of the decoration, despite considerable wear and tear, remains of wide, shallow grooves can be observed along the edges, at a distance of 3.5 cm and 7 cm, respectively” (Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 100). However, these grooves are difficult to verify.

Interpretation of the Imagery 
No interpretation

Type and Dating 
The fragment certainly represents the upper part of a quite tall Type A stone (see V), dating to between AD 400 and 600. Edge decoration consisting of only two parallel grooves can be found on many Type A picture stones.

References 
Lindqvist 1941/42 II, p. 100, fig. 461.

 
Fyndplats
Bildstenen är känd sedan 1909, då den låg som ett trappsteg i trappan till tornportalen i Lummelunda kyrka.

Nuvarande lokalisering
Samma plats som 1909.

Beskrivning
Övre del av en tidig bildsten (typ A), 90 cm hög och som bredast 113 cm, med spår av kantdekor.

Datering
Dateringen kan inte anges närmare, men den tillhör perioden 400-600.

Tolkning
Ingen tolkning.

AA

Title
GP 246 Lummelunda kyrka (I)

Jan Peder Lamm ID 
174

Lindqvist Title 
Lummelunda, Kirche

ATA