Runinskrift Sö 265 is a rune stone located in Högsta, Österhaninge socken and Haninge kommun on Södertörn. It stands in the spot where it was discovered in the middle of the 19th century, in a field slope just south of a farm's main building and near a stream.
It is assumed that the stone was a bridge stone that stood next to an ancient bridge structure over the stream in the bottom of a crack valley. A stone chest following a presumed bridge support has been found very close by in the field loam.
The stone features large and unusually clear runes. The inscription reads that (Gåse) raised the stone after Assur, his son, and after Ulf. The motif is simple, featuring a glosögd runorm with a tail and neck that cross each other in the lower part of the surface, with a braided cross above it.
The carver is believed to be Asbjörn, as the nose of the serpent has similar nostrils to the stone Sö 266 in the nearby village of Sanda.
Sources: Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons
Written by Nik Frost
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