The Kallerup Stone
   

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KALLERUP

the runestone

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This stone is also known as the Høje Tåstrup Stone. It was found in 1827 by a masonry worker on a field with three large rock piles close at each other near Kallerup, not far from the road between Roskilde and Copenhagen. Worsaae raised it at the Roskilde road in 1851.

Found: On a field near Kallerup, Zealand.
Present location:
Ansgarkirke , Hovedgaden 369, 2640 Hedehusene in the cemetery.

The stone is granite and 163 centimetres high, 85 centimetres wide and 70 centimetres thick. It was carved between 700 and 800.

The inscription: "Hornbura stæinn Svīðings."
Translated: Hornbori's stone, of Sviði's line.