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Burial mounds from the Bronze Age at Skarvaberget, Sydnes

Sydnes

19.05.2018 - 20:59

Rope making

Sandviken

12.06.2018 - 19:56

Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.

Årstad in the 1890s

Årstad

12.06.2018 - 17:18

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.

Blanks for bowls and ladles

Eidsbøen

13.03.2018 - 20:58

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.

Burial mounds at Hæreid

Hæreid- archaeology

26.05.2018 - 11:22

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, the mounds and stone piles, on their own or in clusters, large and small, round and elongated – at least 350 in all.

Varberg

Varberg

26.05.2018 - 11:34

The royal mound at Hop, Askøy

Hop- The royal mounds

13.03.2018 - 21:07

The cholera graveyard. Møvik, Fjell

Møvik

14.03.2018 - 20:47

In the winter of 1849 the impoverished Fjell municipality was forced to put money into new burial places at Møvik and Bildøydalen, because of the raging cholera epidemic. On 28 March the municipal council decided on a resolution “to apply to His Majesty the King most subserviently to be granted a loan of 500 Speciedaler …”

The mill in Kvernapollen

Kvernapollen

16.06.2018 - 18:29

When the workers came to Kollsnes to start on the work with the landing for the gas terminal from the Troll field in the North Sea, they found the ruins of an old farm mill at Kvernapollen.

The Hopland mills around 1940.

Kvernhusvågen

30.03.2018 - 09:08

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