Parish Find Location 
Lärbro

Find Location 
Lärbro church

Find Context Classification 
Church

Coordinate Find Location (lat) 
6411335

Coordinate Find Location (long) 
725486

Parish Present Location 
Lärbro

Present Location 
Lärbro church

Present Location Classification 
Church
In-Loco

Coordinate Present Location (lat) 
6390259

Coordinate Present Location (long) 
695514

Year of Discovery 
1953

Material 
Limestone

Height 
140

Width 
105

Thickness 
15

Lindqvist Type 
A (ca. 400-600)

Lindqvist Shape 
Tall stone

Runic Inscription or not 
No

Context and Discovery 
Found in 1953 during restoration work as spolia in the floor of the tower room. It was brought to Magasin Visborg but was given back in 2016 to be exhibited in Lärbro Church. HS

Measurements, Material and Condition 
This stele was re-used as spolia in the tower room of Lärbro Church which is why the surface is partly eroded smoothly from being walked on. Only the right side is less eroded. The top is broken off quite straight with the upper right corner damaged. The bottom is broken off with the two corners rounded. The left side is preserved while the right side is either broken off or was never worked. Many fossils are embedded in the light grey limestone slab. Little holes in the surface seem to have natural causes. The surface is worked but quite uneven compared to other stones. The decoration is better preserved on the right side and the left side is more eroded. Especially the boat is hard to see on the stone. The images are created by quite thick simple carvings. The new 3D models reveal the lower part of a circular motif above the horizontal interlace ornament. In combination with the oared vessel and the parallel borderlines, it is therefore possible, that it was an A-stone once and that the simple stairs ornament and the interlace ornaments were applied at a later time. HS

References 
Guber 2011, no. 49; Lindqvist 1955, 48–50 fig. 6

Title
GP 262 Lärbro kyrka

Fornsök ID 
L1976:5052

RAÄ ID 
Lärbro 502:1

Gotlands Museum ID 
GFC10214_18, GFC10978

Jan Peder Lamm ID 
175