June 6, 2019:
Drive home after seeing HIF lose to Dalstorp. At Vätteryd's grave field south of Sösdala is Café Brevé. Its opening hours have always been a mystery, but now it's open. Or there were. It has changed owners and is called Vittfarnas Café. Apparently open daily. A man, equipped as Viking Vittfarna, tries to interest us for Vikings, but we are only interested in a coffee. Coffee with waffle. Waffle with ice cream and caramel sauce. Nice weather, sitting outside. Next time it will be without caramel sauce. Out on the grave field, the Vittfarna guide, we wait until the field is empty. Always interesting to walk around among the stone ships and other stone formations. Take a walk on the grave field until the sheep become to familiar.

20 June 2009: It's a long time since I passed here. The Vätteryd grave field is located south of Sösdala along the highway 23. Then had a coffee shop just opened next to the field. The café (Café Breve) still exists, but is closed today. Probably because it is Midsummer Day, but there is no sign about it. The grave field is fenced and grazed by sheep. Into the ground is a ribboned entrance that prevents the sheeps to get out . The field, which is from the late Iron Age, was in use around 550-900 AD. There are a large number of standing stones and more than ten stone ships. When excavations were done was fire graves found. Most of the ships are damaged, on the gentle slope towards the road is an almost complete ship. In the northern part dominates heather, and here are most of the stones. To the south are single stones and a few ships. Probably there are stones in the stone walls that exist. In a grove of trees lies the sheep at a portion of a ship. I lean against a large stone and eat lunch standing up. My back is bad, though I am able to sit down, I would not come up again. Then there would be one more ancient onument here. More interested of this place? No, they only exercise the dog. Between the road and the field is a narrow gravel road, in between are some stones. Also north of the fence are stones.

I drive home through Fulltofta Nature Center to ask about the new circular route along the Skåneleden trail and if the cottage Ramstorp can be rented. Closed midsummer.

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