Neil Hopcroft

Not far from the roadside runestones there is a gravefield.

This first looks a lot like other rocks in the ground in this area, but I stopped to take a closer look because of the little information board by it – even standing next to it it wasn’t obvious it was actually a carved stone. These last two are U139 & U140 (though I don’t know which […]

Just outside Södertalje is a Scania truck factory. There is a massive rail interchange associated with it, though I’m not sure they still use rail as a major transport for their finished vehicles.

In the small town of Järna I found another rune stone, by the church. I didn’t know, when I was there, that Järna is the home of Anthroposophy in Sweden.

On my way back from Aspa and Runtuna I stopped at the small town of Gnesta, this is a small town at the periphery of the SL Stockholm commuter rail system. It reminded me, in some ways, of Fort William, though it is half the size.

As well as the rune stones the small village of Aspa has a beautiful view of the lake – indeed this was, in ancient times, a very important place in Sweden as all of the kings would cross the river here.

The small village of Aspa has a number of rune stones

Standing by a bridge over a brook outside Aspa stand a couple of rune stones.

Outside the small village of Aspa is a brook.