Neil Hopcroft

Just down the road from Mörby borgruin is an ancient gravefield.“This cemetery consists of 125 graves and dates from the late Iron Age (500-1100AD). The people who buried their dead here lived at a settlement situated somewhere close to the cemetery”

[Audiobook] Final Destination, Riding Britain’s Trains to the End of the Line, by Nige Tassell This book follows a tour, north to south, of the railway lines of Britain, taking the train to the end of sixteen train lines and exploring what he finds at each. In each case he describes the journey, the train […]

We went to visit the Borgruin at Rimbo again.

After the Street Cars Fest at Kista Mässan we had high hopes for MPH. Sadly it seemed a little sparse, though A. rather liked the Atom. I discovered when I checked the photos that I’d mostly taken pictures of the classics corner.

Upplands 239: “Inga had the stones cut … … husbandman … …”Somehow I had missed this runestone over road from Upplands 236

Part of the Runriket“In Gällsta, there are three rune stones that mention four generations of the same clan. There is a fourth stone as well, but it has no inscription, only a cross. One of the stones has been signed by Öpir, one of the most common rune carvers of the later 11th century. On another stone, […]

Part of the Runriket…there are two runestones at Risbyle.“The two runic stones here at Risbyle were raised att the beginning of the 11th centure and they are among Upplands oldest. Here we meet the Skålhamra family, one of the powerful dynastics which lived in the district around lake Vallentuna during the Viking Age. The test on the […]

[Audiobook] The Book, a Cover to Cover Exploration of the Most Powerful Object of our Time, by Keith Houston I was looking for an audiobook about marginalia but failed miserably (recommendations, anyone?). Instead, I found this. The history of the book is long and storied, this book goes into a lot of detail about the […]

Part of the Runriket.“The two runic rock carvings south of the creek show that todays road coincides largely with the ancient route, which during the Iron Age ran to the west of the Vallentuna lake. At that time, the road went between these two runic carvings.100 metres northwards on the eastern side of the road, there […]