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Farmers and Settlements
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
From 4,500 to 5,000 years ago most of Hordaland was a landscape of forest, right out to the coast and the islands. With our inner eye we can see old o...
Årsand
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Below a south facing, steep rock at Årsand, there is one of the strangest ancient relics in the whole of Hordaland. The jutting rock wall forms a shal...
Tjernagel
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
For almost three thousand years Tjernagelshaugen (the Tjernagel cairn) has lain as a landmark at the Bømlo fjord. The poet Torarin mentions the cairn ...
Borgåsen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Bjørn Myhre
In Etne there are no less than four defensive refuges. They are all situated in strategic positions, so that they have served as places of refuge and ...
Helgaberget
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is...
Fitjar - the King's farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most...
Rimsvarden
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Rimsvarden lies high and unencumbered, an enormous stone mound on the highest top with a wide view of the Fitjar rural community. With its 30 meters a...
Hystad - burial mounds
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The biggest collection of prehistoric burial relics in Stord is to be found in Hystadmarka. There are still 16 burial mounds and two stone rings visib...
Hæreid - archaeology
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie...
Grødalshaug
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of...
Dale farm
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse be...
Stamnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Ågot Gammersvik
Øystein Jansen
Hopland
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Svein Indrelid
The farmhouses at holding No. 15 at Hopland are built together to form a long, continuous building, with dwelling house, hayshed and cowshed built in ...
Ramsøy
Settlements, Villages, Towns
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Nils Georg Brekke
“At thick of night a thundering knock on the door; the man in the house wakes up, jumps out and demands: Who cries? Yes, now you must out, the beacon ...
Høybøen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kjersti Randers
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
In connection with the planned developments in the oil sector at Vindenes around 1980, excavations were carried out under the auspices of Bergen Histo...
Botnavatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
BOTNAVATNET - A RESULTOF EFFECTIVE GLACIER WORK ...
Nordhuglo
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Toftøyna
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...
Hop - The royal mounds
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Tyssøy
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
B.E.Bendixen, who has written about “The Churches in Søndre Bergenhus Amt”, believed even around 1900 that there was evidence at Tyssøy of the church ...
Risøya
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Hjartøy
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigmund Alsaker
A FISHING VILLAGE FROM THE IRON AGE It was not black gold (oil), but the ocean's silver, that brought riches from the west of Hjartøy 1000 years ago....
Samnøya
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Gullbotnen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...
Kvernes
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
Idar Restad
Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...
Frøland - Liarostunnel
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Møkstrafjordøyane
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Erling Rykkelid
The sea keeps the bedrock in the outer skerries smooth and clean. When the bedrock is also varied and interesting, the setting is perfect for a discov...
Drøna
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Erling Rykkelid
GUEST FROM THE EARTH'S INTERIOR ...
Eidsbøen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a ...
Ulven
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squee...
Døso
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Gerd Bolstad
On the farms Døso and Skeie there has been a burial site with at least 6 burial mounds – probably a burial site for the most powerful men and women of...
Vargavågen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Gerd Bolstad
Tor Lunde
Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Neumann
Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedroc...
Huglo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Anders Lundberg
The majority of Huglo is bare rock. A bit of dwarf pine forest is the only vegetation able to put down roots. Along the west- and east sides, to the c...
Fitjarøyane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
If we study the group of islands south of Selbjørns Fjord from the air or on a sea map, we will notice that many of the islands are elongated and lie ...
Finnås
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
At Flintaneset by Finnåsvika, in the centre of the municipality, we find the most beautiful and best preserved igneous rocks in western Norway. We mus...
Siggjo
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Siggjo is a cone-shaped, volcano-like mountaintop in the part of Hordaland where one finds the best preserved volcanic rocks. The rock types originate...
Urangsvågen-Rubbestadneset
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
In 1868 the first stone workers came to Rubbestadneset to take out the granite for the Skoltegrunns Pier, predecessor of the Skoltegrunns wharf in Ber...
Kattnakken–Stovegolvet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The highest mountainous area on Stord, including Kattnakken, Midtfjellet and Stovegolvet, has more in common with the mountainous terrain on the mainl...
Vatlestraumen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...
Haganes
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
The gneiss landscape west and north of Bergen viewed in profile can remind us of a saw blade of the kind that has long, slanted sides that get broken ...
Ågotnes - crystals
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...
Turøyvegen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...
Herdla – glacial deposits
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
The shift in the landscape is striking between the barren craggy moors north on Askøy and the green fields of Herdla, which has the county's biggest f...
Ask - jordbær
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...
Hanøy
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...
Golta - Gneiss
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...
Spildepollen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...
The bedrock of western Norway
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Much is hidden from us, but we know some of the main features in the history behind the different rock types and minerals that surround us. The Hordal...
The Precambrian Era and Precambrian basement rocks
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Almost nothing is as solid, unchangeable and stable as the Norwegian Precambrian basement rocks. Here, there are no volcanic eruptions or violent eart...
Hordaland as high as the Himalayas - the Caledonian mountain chain
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The Himalaya Mountain Chain is being formed by the Indian continental plate colliding w the Asian continent. This happens because the earth’s continen...
The mountain chain disappears – and the dinosaurs arrive!
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The Caledonian mountain chain is an example of how plate movements and continental drift can cause collisions and the upheaval of huge mountain chains...
Einstapevoll - slates
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their dis...
Straumen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Vangdal
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Nils Georg Brekke
At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has bee...
Varaldsøy - mining
Industry, Energy and Natural Resources
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
There is still a lot of ore in the abandoned mines on Varaldsøy Island. If today's prices and availability of ore continue, it is doubtful whether the...
Ølve - Mining
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
All in all there are ten known copper mines and two iron mines on the Ølve peninsula. Geologically, the nine mines on Varaldsøy Island also should be ...
The Valen Fault
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Lykling - gold
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Brian Robins
Haakon Fossen
During the summer of 1979 a rock was found at Lykling in Bømlo that contained 450 grams of gold, and at the end of the 1980s a great many gold samples...
Gramshaug
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Lyngholmen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Vikse
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Krokavatnet
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Kuvvet Atakan
Haakon Fossen
On Sunday the 29th of January, 1989, at 17:38 o'clock, Etna shook. The earthquake, with its epicentre ca. 9 kilometres south of Etne centre, had a str...
The Halsnøy Boat
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Arne Emil Christensen
Sydnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
COASTAL STONE CAIRNS AT HALSNØYA ...
Halne
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle...
Gaupås
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Sandviksfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
On Sandviksfjellet there are old boulders that have been made into mountains. The stones have been stretched out or squeezed together between huge sla...
Marmorøyen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Hereiane
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
At Hereiane on warm summer days one you can walk barefoot up the hill from the fjord all the way up to 400 metres elevation. The naked, furrowed bedro...
Litlandsvatnet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Nils Georg Brekke
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...
Bergsdalen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...
Skreien
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...
Lussand - geology
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Hardangerfjorden kløyver Hordaland i to. Den etter måten rettlinja fjorden skjer seg liksom på skeive inn i landet. Ikkje som Sognefjorden og Nordfjor...
Froastad
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Villand Reutz
RAW MATERIALS FOR MUSIC - AND FOR MOSQUITOS ...
Vesoldo
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem fr...
Kvamskogen
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The different bedrock types that got shoved in over Hordaland in Cambro-Silurian times still remain, layer by layer, almost like a cake. But at Kvamsk...
Holmengrå
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Helge Sunde
Holmengrå is the only place in Hordaland where we find traces of the abrasion that is supposed to have transformed Western Norway from a Himalaya-like...
Hårteigen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Hårteigen, «the grey signpost», as the name suggests, is a landmark for mountain hikers on the western plateau. The piece of mountain is also a monume...
Kvalvikane
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
In Ålvik quartz has long been used to produce ferro-silicon. The quartz was collected from the other side of the fjord, from the mountainside above Kv...
Matskorhæ
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
QUARTZ AND ANATASE...
Skytjedalen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Varberg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Vikingnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
STONE MOUNDS ALONG THE FJORD ...
Bakko
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the Nationa...
Håhaugsteinen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kinsarvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketi...
Mjølfjell
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Inge Aarseth
Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...
The forgotten saga
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The saga regarding the settlement of Hordaland started off about 10,000 years ago. Most of this saga has been recorded in writing, not on paper, but o...
Nordheim
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...
Hamlagrø
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Bjørn Moe
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...
Rallarvegen
Landscape
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Inge Aarseth
They rest there, all as one, the silent witnesses of Western Norway's saga of creation: Precambrian basement, phyllite and thrust sheet. In the end ca...
Buadalsbrotet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
FOSSIL SCREE ...
Vassfjøro
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
William Helland-Hansen
ROOF TILES IN THE MOUNTAINS ...
Trail toward Kyrkjedøri
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Helge Askvik
Roughly 550 million years ago, what is now Finse lay at the bottom of the sea - the remains of mud and clay that were deposited in this sea have ended...
Rambjørg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
IRON BARS AT RAMBJØRG ...
Memorial stone commemorating women's graves at Skaim
People and Society
Monument / Monument
Published: 08.12.2005
Author:
Hermund Kleppa
Svein Indrelid
On the northern side of the church at Aurlandsvangen there is a stone linked to a prehistoric find of a grave at the farm Skaim. The stone has been er...
Raknes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE EMPEROR’S COIN AT RAKNES...
Høvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
NECK RINGS FROM HØVIK ...
Byrkjehaugen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
On the farm Bø, close to the highway between Bulken and Voss lies Byrkjehaugen, one of the largest burial mounds in West Norway. Originally it was aro...
Olavskrossen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Johannes Gjerdåker
Sledasteinen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
“THE DANCERS” ON THE SLEDA STONE...
Women's graves at Skaim- settlement for 15 centuries
Historisk plass / Historical site
Published: 08.12.2005
Author:
Svein Indrelid
In the spring of 1964 there was some cultivation work going on at the farm of Skaim. This work included removing some rock heaps left from clearing th...
Mula
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Johannes Gjerdåker
MULA – A DESERTED FARM FROM THE MIDDLE AGES...
Gjøstein
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Seberg
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
HALLSTATT - LEKVE ...
Hallingskeid
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE MARKETPLACE AT HALLINGSKEID ...
Sponheim
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Trå
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
A WOMAN’S GRAVE FROM VIKING TIMES In a woman’s grave on the farm Trå remains of a bronze ladle and runic inscriptions were found many years ago. Buri...
Ålvik
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
BRONZE FIND FROM ÅLVIK...
Rosseland
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Around 50 years ago a runic stone came to light in a barn wall at Rosseland. On one of the flat sides 25 runic signs had been carved. The letters are ...
Bergesfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Both in its appearance and origin, Bergesfjellet mountain resembles Hårteigen on Hardangervidda, even though Hårteigen is a bit bigger. ...
Espevik
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
220 million years ago, glowing hot molten rock masses intruded into fractures in the earth's crust in the outer parts of Hordaland. Some of these are ...
Årbakka - The prehistoric site
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through t...
Dalland
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Harald Dalland
Arne Emil Christensen
Hamn
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE BOATSHED AT HAMN ...
Eldsfjellet
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Håkon Austrheim
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...
Fosnstraumen
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Anne Karin Hufthammar
Knut Andreas Bergsvik
At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” he...
Fløksand
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
THE MEAT KNIFE FROM FLØKSAND...
Lurøyane
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...
Manger
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
Mangerite is a rock type that was first made famous in a treatise by the Bergen geologist Carl Fredrik Kolderup in 1903. The rock type got its name fr...
Mangersnes
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Bård Kolflåth
SMALL BOATS IN THE IRON AGE At Mangersnes, in a bog just by the sea, there is a layer about one metre thick with wood that has traces of cutting, sh...
Stall
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
The Bergen Arcs have an unusually sharp boundary to the bedrock in the east. Geologists think that this was caused by movements in the earth's crust d...
Seim
Archaeology
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Svein Indrelid
Sigrid H.H. Kaland
Sæheim (Seim) at Lygrefjord is mentioned as one of the royal farms of Harald Hårfagre. Several of the first Norwegian national kings had their seat he...
Vågenes
Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Haakon Fossen
On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than ...
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Landscapes
Themes
Published: 06.02.2024
Author:
Nils Georg Brekke
Svein Indrelid
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...
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