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Under the grass fields lie large quantities of sand and gravel.

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?

Hana

Hana

12.03.2018 - 13:16

From a soapstone quarry at Lykling

Lykling- soapstone

22.08.2018 - 15:58

Statue of Magnus Erlingsson by the Town Hall in Etne.

Støle

19.05.2018 - 20:53

High above the sea and the beach flats, on one of the wide terraces shaped by the sea and the ice, lies the farm Støle (Stødle). The Old Norse name of Studla is derived from studill “support, shelf”. As far back as Viking times Støle has been a chieftain’s farm, a good farm on the plains formed by the moraine masses.

Håbrekke farm

Hårbrekke

26.05.2018 - 16:35

Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”

Sponheim

27.05.2018 - 15:52

King Sverre in the snowstorm in the Voss Mountains, 1870.

Sverrestigen

19.06.2018 - 17:48

From Kvalvågstraumen

Kvalvågstraumen

11.07.2017 - 13:56

The mill that belonged to Johan Steinegger in Kvalvågen in Lindås, an attempt to exploit the difference in tides

Kvalvågen

16.06.2018 - 18:32

Ystebøtræet, Radøy

Ystebøtræet

18.06.2018 - 20:08

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