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![Kjerringafjellet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_31.jpg?itok=iFmhzSNw)
Bergsdalen
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 correctly the bedrock, first moved eastward, then back a bit westward again. All this rocking back and forth in the mountains ended about 400 million years ago.
![Eclogite bedrock at Ådnefjellet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_21.jpg?itok=W8PmuPzd)
Eldsfjellet
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledonian mountain chain. The process may well have triggered some of the deepest earthquakes the world has ever known. The clearest traces of this drama are found in and around Mt. Eldsfjellet, in peaceful Meland.
![Kotedalen, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_302_zz.jpg?itok=fngzYBml)
Fosnstraumen
At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” here with the remains of the waste dumps of a hunting people. The place was called Kotedalen. Here they came, one group after the other, and settled for some weeks, some months, or maybe years before they went on, leaving the settlement deserted. Time after time it happened. At least 16 settlement phases have been identified, stretching over 5,500 years.
![“Prospectus of Frekhaug”. J.F.L.Dreier, 1812](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_295-3.jpg?itok=aGf5ib0l)
Frekhaug
Frekhaug has been a large farm with well-off owners through many generations. The main house, a two storey building with a hipped roof, must have been erected about 1780.
![Hana](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_56.jpg?itok=xl5rWX0M)
![The extended farm dwelling at Hopland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_304-1.jpg?itok=ird44EKf)
Hopland
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 one row. There have been many such joined structures in the coastal communities, but today there are few remaining. If we travel to the other side of the North Sea, to the Faeroes, Shetland and the Orkney Islands, we find corresponding features in the older building traditions. We find ourselves in a large North Atlantic cultural area.
![The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/austr_5.jpg?itok=-8B2oviO)
Litlandsvatnet
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period of operation from 1882 to 1945, 4170 tonnes of pure nickel were extracted from 462 000 tonnes of ore, a large production by Norwegian standards.
![Drawing of how it might have looked at Straume 7000 years ago.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_32.jpg?itok=LfWFLsDG)
Skipshelleren
For vel 7000 år sidan var Straume ein av dei beste – om ikkje den beste – veideplassen i Hordaland. Steinalderfolket som busette seg ved Skipshelleren, skjøna truleg ikkje kor heldige dei var. Mellom dei opptil 2 meter tjukke dyngjene med stein og bein som arkeologar grov fram i 1931–32, fann dei reiskapar og avfall frå fangst og matstell. Frå dette materialet har arkeologane stava seg fram til livet ved straumen.
![Skreien](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_21.jpg?itok=H25GT68d)