Parish Find Location 
Unknown

Find Location 
Unknown

Find Context Classification 
Unknown

Present Location Classification 
Gotlands Museum Magasin Visborg

Coordinate Present Location (lat) 
6390259

Coordinate Present Location (long) 
695514

Material 
Limestone

Height 
60

Width 
71

Lindqvist Type 
A (ca. 400-600)

Lindqvist Shape 
Tall stone

Iconographic Keywords 
circle 
whorl 
sun 

Runic Inscription or not 
No

Context and Discovery 
The fragment was found in storage at Gotlands Museum without bearing an inventory number or any further information.

Measurements, Material and Condition 
The picture stone fragment represents a roughly rectangular limestone slab that on one short side preserves parts of the original lateral (right) edge of the monument. The piece features a height of 60 cm (i.e., the surviving lateral edge of the picture stone) and a width of 71 cm. The stone’s surface is relatively flat, and the carvings are well-preserved and secondarily painted. The fragment GP 311 Unknown Find Spot obviously belongs to the same monument, fits perfectly to the left broken edge of GP 310 and preserves part of the picture stone’s left lateral edge. This also allows us to deduce the total width of the picture stone in the middle area of 111 cm.
GP 311 Unknown Find Spot

Description of Ornament and Images 
The preserved lateral (right) edge of the picture stone features two parallel grooves that form the border decoration. About the lower third of the central roundel is preserved, featuring a whorl pattern, two sunken and two carved crescent-shaped segments which have survived. The roundel has a corona formed by a row of carved (semi)circles. Few remains of a horizontal border can be observed, which obviously featured a more elaborate decoration pattern, comparable to the horizontal borders in the lower image fields of GP 537 Vallstena Vallstenarum I and GP 554 Väskinde kyrka 5 (see IX). A somewhat larger part of this horizontal border is preserved on the matching fragment GP 311 Unknown Find Spot (see V).
GP 537 Vallstena Vallstenarum (I)
GP0554
GP 311 Unknown Find Spot

Interpretation of the Imagery 
No interpretation

Type and Dating 
The slab represents a fragment of the lower half of an early-type picture stone, i.e., Type A according to Lindqvist’s typology, dating between AD 400 and 600. The sparse remains of the remarkable horizontal border indicate a certain connection with the Type A monuments GP 537 Vallstena Vallstenarum I and GP 554 Väskinde kyrka 5 (see VI). In Lindqvist’s opinion (1941/42 I, p. 111–112), the unusual pattern of these borders can be traced back to Celtic ornament, transmitted by Pannonian artists, which is a rather speculative assumption (cf. Arrhenius/Holmqvist 1960, pp. 178–179). Arrhenius and Holmqvist also consider Coptic parallels (ibid. pp. 189–190, fig. 9).
GP 537 Vallstena Vallstenarum (I)
GP0554

References 
Guber 2011, p. 158 cat. no. 98.

Title
GP 310 Unknown Find Spot

Gotlands Museum ID 
GFC11033

Jan Peder Lamm ID 
360