The steep sloping landscape on Håvra, the dug fields, the piles of cleared stones, the ash poles and the retaining walls tell a rich saga of the cultural landscape (Svein Nord).
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes
The development which culminated in the great west Norwegian clustered communities in the 18th and 19th centuries, such as we see at Havrå on Osterøy Island, actually first came into being in Viking times, with an incipient division of the farms into smaller units. The tool technology which has given form to this landscape, the sickle, the hoe and the wooden plough go just as far back – yes, in fact the sickle and the scythe are tools which have been maintaining and modelling the landscape from the Iron Age.
A stone image at Bakko, Herand in Jondal. (Svein Nord).
