Behind the soldier’s cottage stands another trace of everyday rural life – an 18th-century barn built using skiftesverk, a traditional Swedish timber-frame technique.

Vertical posts with carved grooves hold horizontal beams in place – each one lowered in turn until the structure is complete. This method made it easy to dismantle and relocate the building – and that’s exactly what happened here.

The barn originally came from the croft Eriksdal, number 342 in Borgs rote, but its roots go back even further to Stora Mellby, about 15 kilometers from here. In 1940, it was moved to this location – and it still stands largely intact today.

Inside, you’ll find everything essential to traditional farm life: a fähus for livestock, a hayloft for storing hay and grain, and a wagon shed for tools. The roof is thatched with straw, weighed down by slender wooden rods called ryttare. At the gable’s peak sits a stick known as skateskräck – once believed to ward off misfortune.

On the western gable, you’ll see a rare feature – a wooden horse mill, built in 1873. It comes from the farm Anstorp, once part of the Gräfsnäs estate.

Here, a horse would walk in circles, powering a threshing machine that separated grain from chaff – a slow, heavy task requiring both strength and endurance.

The horse mill was moved to the castle park in 1967, and it still stands here today – a living reminder of how the work of animals and people once shaped everyday life in the Swedish countryside.

Photos: Solveig Areschoug Pettersson