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![Under the grass fields lie large quantities of sand and gravel.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mo_24.jpg?itok=e4ePAE19)
Nedre Helland- Sand Quarries
13.12.2018 - 11:09
The three spades in the municipal coat of arms for Modalen are sand spades. Sand quarrying has brought income and employment. As much as 70,000-80,0000 tonnes of sand and gravel left the municipality each year since the turn of the millennium, to be used as cementing sand. Why is Modalen endowed with so much sand?
Last changed: 13.12.2018 | Content type: Place
![Skredhaugen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-2.jpg?itok=yDgN2ZD4)
![A “chest piece” from Bu museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-3.jpg?itok=OmJbReR9)
![The chest from Sekse, painted by Gunnar Årekol in 1813.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_388-3.jpg?itok=12rL18qi)
![Indre Vikane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_381-3.jpg?itok=dTRacY7X)
![The décor from the Skogasel house](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_376-2.jpg?itok=QmBEEr5T)
![The “window house” at Ystås](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_367-4x.jpg?itok=Z1TrRuGr)
![](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_366_x.jpg?itok=bWyHW2Im)
Kjerland
26.05.2018 - 11:40
On the farms Kjerland and Røynstrond, east of the river that flows into the fjord, we find many decorative painters who belong to the so-called sòlekistemålarane in Hardanger: Knut and Mikkjel Røynstrand and Johannes Jonsson Kjærland.
Last changed: 26.05.2018 | Content type: Place
![The cross church from 1710](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_359-3_0.jpg?itok=a4Vem1vB)
![Nesheimstunet, Voss](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_352-3.jpg?itok=Bvie7VRK)