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![Stained glass painting in “Målabuo”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_199.2x.jpg?itok=QjuFUhzb)
![The circular buckle from Hatteberg, Kvinnherad](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_198-2_0.jpg?itok=Nx0pe53v)
![Burial mounds from the Bronze Age at Skarvaberget, Sydnes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_193_sydnes_gravhaug_150.jpg?itok=Fyg1S_87)
![Chest from Huglo, painted in 1820 by Gunder Gundersen Handeland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_193-1.jpg?itok=lDn-kBR3)
![The Boat Hall at the Horda Museum houses 26 clinker-built, open wooden boats](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_266_hordamuseet_2_150_0.jpg?itok=hUA-sFmd)
![Årstad in the 1890s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_253-2.jpg?itok=5wIhsIRt)
Årstad
Alrekstad (later Årstad) is the birthplace of Bergen. The estate was an estate for Harald Hårfagre and several of his descendants: Eirik Blodøks, Håkon den gode og Olav Tryggvason. These first kings moved with their courts and guardsmen from estate to estate. From these estates the king ruled the country.
![In the middle of the flat pastures at Torsnes was the farmyard of the estate, undivided until the middle of the 1700s](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_381-2_fonna_112.jpg?itok=3bxpYqSH)
Torsnes
When bishop J.Neumann was on a visitation in Hardanger in 1825 he also visited Torsnes, the seat of the Galtung family. They were then in the process of pulling down the old dwelling house on the farm. As the committed observer of ancient monuments and antiquarian buildings that he was, bishop Neumann has provided us with interesting details:
![Blanks for bowls and ladles](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_231-4.jpg?itok=EnFHKTo-)
Eidsbøen
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 holy place, where the dead were buried.
![The man from Holmefjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_246-7.jpg?itok=XaoETJFZ)
Holmefjord
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are a few.