10. Tvärbom croft

An archaeologist can quite easily make out the remains of a hearth by the tree here, while to the untrained eye there doesn’t appear to be anything special. These remains indicate that there was once a dwelling place here. Unfortunately the jogging track goes right over the foundations but we can still see the contours of the outer walls, revealing a two-roomed house. This could very well be the site of the croft called Tvärbommen.

The foundations, the fences, the cattle-shed and other still undiscovered remains could also be the remnants of another homestead which was here at the end of the 18th century. It was a cottage with a roof made of birch-bark and peat with a cellar, outhouses, a cattle-shed and barn. It may be that the Tvärbom croft was burnt down by the Russians in 1719 and was replaced by this cottage.

At the close of the 18th century the whole of Djurö was owned by a nobleman named Eric Gustaf Adlerberg. The tenant of this homestead, which formed part of Adlerberg’s property was Olof Kumberg.

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