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Is this something to do with it? Found on a google search for Jordkast...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving
In the Footnotes it mentions:
Reference no. 6 on the wiki page takes us to a link which shows a picture of a book called "Archive of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics" and has a picture on the cover which resembles Jordkast:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost_heaving
In the Footnotes it mentions:
In the section II. Fl. Om Jord och Landskap i gemeen (II. About the soil and the landscape in general) of his book, Hiärne mentions the phenomenon of "earth casting" or "earth heaving", in which, after the spring thaw, large chunks of sod appear to have been ripped from the ground and tossed: "3. Whether one sees in other places in Sweden, Finland and Iceland, etc., as has so happened in Uppland and in Närke in Viby parish, royal Vallby, that the earth itself with turf and all [in pieces] up to a few cubits long and wide has been thrown upwards which 20 or more men could not do, and a large pit is left afterwards.
Reference no. 6 on the wiki page takes us to a link which shows a picture of a book called "Archive of Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics" and has a picture on the cover which resembles Jordkast: