Runestones at Aspa

Aspa was the location of the local assembly called the Tingshögen[2] for the Rönö Hundred administrative area until 1600, and the newly elected king passed the stones during his Eriksgata.

Runestones at other locations that tradition holds were associated with the Eriksgata include U 793 at Ulunda and Vg 4 at Stora Ek.

[4] Originally there were several runestones and standing stones erected at the Tingshögen, but today only a few remain, and some of these were recovered from having been reused as construction materials at a bridge.

The Rundata designation for this Södermanland inscription, Sö Fv1948;289, refers to the year and page number of the issue of Fornvännen in which the runestone was first described.

Similar to Sö 138, it has runic text written in the present tense, and was probably originally located at the Tingshögen.

[7] This granite runestone was raised by two parents in memory of their son and has a Christian cross near the top of the inscription.