Knowledge of runic writing reached the Nordic countries, as early as the 3:rd century A.D. After 400 A.D. it began to be used for inscriptions on stones. The stone was usually put up to commemorate a dead person or some great deed.

The inscription reads:
Håmund-Ulv erected this stone after Rolv his father, and Öborg after her husband. They owned the village of Släbro. Frösten and Rolv were competent men.