Text from the information board:
"Bose carved the church. Bose carved the stone of the church of the villagers/residents of Skatelöv".
Rune-engraved rectangular carved stone from the
12th century. Rectangular building blocks with carved decoration are known from several churches in Värend, e.g. the cathedral in Växjö and the now demolished medieval church in Skatelöv. The stones have their historical background in the use of checkerboard-patterned rectangular stones in Jutland (continental European part of Denmark) and they are probably linked to the work of the so-called "byggnadshytta", i.e. the collective of artists and craftsmen who built the cathedral. In Skatelöv, the stonemason replaced the geometric pattern with plant ornamentation and animal figures.
The reason the runic inscription is so clear is that the stonemason first mistakenly scratched that he had carved the church. When he discovered the mistake, he carved the correct message that he had carved the rectangular stones of the church. The fact that he did not know the runic script is evident from the fact that he forgot to carve the rune p in the word "täljde" (carved) and therefore had to add it as a correction above the word talhi. The rune sequence skatma kirkiu means either the church of the residents in the parish of Skatelöv or the church of the residents of the village of Skatelöv. The male name Bose does not appear in any other Swedish runic inscriptions, but it does appear in some Danish ones. During the Middle Ages the name was found in the southern part of Sweden and Denmark. It is therefore possible that Bose was the name of a Jutland stonemason who created the rectangular stones decorated with carvings.
As he was probably associated with the cathedral in Växjö, the stones can be dated to the end of the 12th century.