The amulet is a copper plate, 82 mm long, 27.5-29mm wide and 0.9mm thick.

[1] It was discovered at a depth of c. 1.2 metres in the 'Granhäcken' block of the medieval city of Sigtuna in March 1931, together with pottery fragments and bone combs.

[1] The Scandinavian Runic-text Database offers the following "standard" readings:[3] Transliteration: Old West Norse normalization Runic Swedish normalization English translation Old West Norse normalization: English translation: As part of her dissertation "Viking-Age Runic Plates: Readings and Interpretations", Sofia Pereswetoff-Morath discusses this find.

[5] She offers the following interpretation:[6] Transliteration: Runic Swedish normalization: English translation: The inscription has been noted to have striking similarities with other Viking-age runic healing-charms, such as the Canterbury formula, written in Scandinavian runes but found in an Anglo-Saxon manuscript.

[7] It reads:[8] The phrase 'nine needs' (niu noþiʀ) is attested in other instances of pagan magic, such as the inscription on the Danish Ribe healing-stick, the Icelandic poem Sigrdrífumál and spell-book Galdrabók.