Dröstorp's deserted village

The area does not belong to the extremely barren alvar land, but there is a more or less thick moraine cover, together with moisture areas. The area is also higher than the alvar in general and constitutes an elevation plateau. The village was established in the late 1600s or early 1700s and can thus be said to be a historical new colonization of a marginal area. It was then abandoned at the end of the 1800s and the village was left to decay. Two of the village's single cottages have been moved and are preserved in the neighboring villages of Smedsgärde and Skarpa Alby. The last person to live in the village at the end of the 1800s was "Boman at Dröstorp", a former convict who according to rumor was an "alvar thief", i.e. a cattle thief. Today, there are house foundations, sheep pastures, stone walls and a continuous field fence with parcel boundaries remaining. A strong string of stones stretches out like a crescent moon into Dröstorpsmossen. The stone string was a fenced feed source. Just southwest of the village site there are prehistoric graves in the form of stone settings and mounds. They testify to the fact that people also lived here during parts of the Iron Age. The economy was probably based on cattle farming even then.