Neil Hopcroft

I took the car to Vaxholm, stopping at some swamps along the way.

Some more pictures of Kista after dark.

The nights are drawing in now, giving me a chance to head to Gamla Stan and take some more pictures of the city lit up across the water.

Broborg is an ancient hill fort in Knivsta kommun, it remains somewhat imprenetrable even these days, with the signs suggesting that you climb several banks of boulders to reach the top – there is a better way up but I didn’t find that until I had already scaled the rocks.

I found something called a ‘borgruin‘ on the map, so had to go and find out what that was. Turns out that its a ruined manor house, which, in its day, must have been an impressive property looking out over the lake.

Some rune stones outside Angarns Kyrka.

Near the small town of Orkesta is a ruined manor house – really it is just foundations now but the artists impression on an information board nearby suggest it was at one time an impressive building.

U337“+ hemik + uk + sialfi + uk + iohan + þeiR + lata hakua + eftR + faþur sin + finuiþ + uk + uarkas × uk × rahnfriþ + uk moþur sina + uk + at + ikikerþi + uk + at + kalf + uk + kiarþar + u- …-at + (h)an […]

Near the Markim gravefields there is a rune stone, U338.“þurstin × uk × ragnfriR × þu ristu × stin × þina × iftiR × biur[n] × i krnbu× bruþur × kalfs × anum × ua[at × uikmu – – R × ku]þ ihlbi × [o]ns × ot × uk × salu × bitr × þan × on karþ[i] […]

Just outside the small village of Markim there are some gravefields.