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Piecing together the puzzle of the world's earliest datable rune stone

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Sandstone fragments found in grave field of Svingerud , Norway , shed light on early use of runic writing on stone.

They feature multiple intriguing sequences of runes alongside other puzzling markings.

Some fragments were carved with several runic sequences, some containing ambiguous markings.

Radiocarbon dating revealed that the contexts date between 50 BC and AD 275 .

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