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A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland. [1][2] More than four hundred picture stones are known today. [3] All of the stones were probably erected as memorial stones, [1] but only rarely ...
The back of the stone that the heart-shaped stone fits into has the outline of a cross carved into it. There is confusion about the discovery of the Peralta Stones. Some sources say they were found by a man named "Jack" [ 3 ] in 1956 [ 4 ] (one source says 1952, [ 2 ] another 1949 [ 3 ] ) near the main highway that goes southeast from Apache ...
Claystone – Clastic sedimentary rock composed primarily of clay-sized particles. Coal – Combustible sedimentary rock composed primarily of carbon. Conglomerate – Sedimentary rock composed of smaller rock fragments. Coquina – Sedimentary rock that is composed mostly of fragments of shells.
The inscription on the Tjängvide stone is carved on a flat slab of limestone which measures 1.7 metres in height, is 1.2 metres wide and 0.3 metres thick. The stone was discovered in 1844 on the farm of Tjängvide, and is located in the Swedish Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm. [1] The stone is probably pagan in origin as no trace ...
The largest and best known of the group, Tängelgårda I is a five-panel tall stone variously dated to 400–550 CE, [5] the 8th century, [6] or the Viking Age, between 800 and 1100. [7] [8] [9] The bottom panel shows a large ship. The upper four panels have been related to the cult of Odin; they include a battle scene with birds of prey ...
Categories: Rock art in Europe. Medieval European sculptures. Stone monuments and memorials. Early Middle Ages. Germanic archaeological artifacts. Viking art. Scandinavian folklore. Germanic paganism.
The Ardre image stones were re-used as paving under the wooden floors of the local church in the Ardre parish of Gotland. Before the historical significance of rune and image stones was understood or appreciated, they were often used as materials in the construction of roads, bridges, and buildings. The image stones were re-discovered when the ...
Gadolinite; Gahnite; Gahnospinel; Garnet group: Pyralspite. Almandine; Pyrope; Spessartine; Ugrandite. Andradite. Demantoid; Melanite; Topazolite; Grossular ...