Timmele
This is a bit off the topic. The stone that is fastened to the churchwall is not a tree-of-life stone, and it doesn't quite look like a stave-cross stone either. The "angelface" stones in the foreground are probably a century or two younger. They never contain any names. Sometimes there are initials on them, though. Point at the picture to see more of them.
What's really special about Timmele is the ancient road system that are still there. People have been walking and riding along river Ätran, which is only 50 meters away, for thousands of years, and their feet have dug deeply into the ground. When one path got hard to use, they just walked a bit further to the left/right of it, and soon it also became too deep to use. You can imagine what it would be like in bad weather, when the water ran down into the "roads", and made them muddy and wet.
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Next to the sunken lanes and just by the wading-place across the river, there is an iron age gravefield with many barrows.
Rune stone Vg 186 used to stand somewhere in Timmele, but it was moved in the mid-18th century to Dagsnäs castle.
