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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
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](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/berg_56.jpg?itok=xl5rWX0M)
![From a soapstone quarry at Lykling](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/nvh_268_lykling_kleber_2_150.jpg?itok=F7bjH3TA)
![Statue of Magnus Erlingsson by the Town Hall in Etne.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awdawd.jpg?itok=aPMhazJW)
Støle
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](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/bru.jpg?itok=oPLcku2-)
![Nils Hertzberg watercolour of “Spånheimsklosteret”](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_362-2.jpg?itok=tMjpbmV9)
![King Sverre in the snowstorm in the Voss Mountains, 1870.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fjose.jpg?itok=W69zfcqn)
![From Kvalvågstraumen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/untitled.jpg?itok=Ki-tlVyn)
![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)
![Ystebøtræet, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_301-1.jpg?itok=mqbwhdA8)