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The largest and best known of the group, Tängelgårda I is a five-panel tall stone variously dated to 400–550 CE, the 8th century, or the Viking Age, between 800 and 1100. The bottom panel shows a large ship. The upper four panels have been related to the cult of Odin; they include a battle scene
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The four stones were discovered in the 1860s at Fånggården, near the farm of Tängelgårda, in Lärbro parish on
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Tängelgårda IV is a two-panel dwarf stone with a suggested date range of the second half of the 8th century or more broadly the Viking Age or earlier, between 500 and 1100, or to the Viking Age or the early Middle Ages, between 800 and 1250. It depicts men drinking from horns and standing in a
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Tängelgårda III, a three-panel tall stone, is heavily damaged. It is dated to the Viking Age, between 800 and 1100. The third panel depicts a ship; the first and second show two horses that may have been carved using the same template as the three horses on Tängelgårda I.
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in the fourth panel. The procession of men with downward-pointed swords in the third panel appears funereal; there appears to be a body lying on the horse's back. In the fourth panel, the rider and the men following him raise rings in one hand that have been compared to
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building. All but one of the figures may have been carved using the same template. Tängelgårda II, a "blind" (blank) stone, is of similar shape to Tängelgårda IV.
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