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![Burial mounds at Hæreid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/haegreid.jpg?itok=LEb0sJkP)
Hæreid- archaeology
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.
![Halnelægeret.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_409-2.jpg?itok=hEx5mouW)
Halne
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle drovers stopped here in the summer; they were the cowboys of their time. But Halnelægeret already had a long history before the cattle drovers came.
![Heggjagarden](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_403-1.jpg?itok=Z2pkEkIF)
Heggjagarden
The transport exchange on the farm Vik in Eidfjord was an important part of the communication network in older times. This is where people secured transport by boat out in the fjord, those travelling across the mountain from east and down into Måbødalen. The transport exchange was situated at “Wiige grund”. Today the highway cuts through the farmyard; the main farmhouse from the 1800s lies on the upper side of the road, the large sea-house, with a bakery in former times, lies close to the fjord.
![The guesthouse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_366-1.jpg?itok=GUuS5PEL)
Kongstun
In the Middle Ages the farmers were under obligation to transport state officials. The bishops were entitled to 18 horses when they travelled about on visitations, and the king could requisition free transport.
![Storegraven and Granvin church](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_365-4.jpg?itok=t9act0tk)
Storegraven
The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centrally situated at Granvinsvatnet, by the important traffic artery between Hardanger and Voss, where the road takes off to Ulvik.
![Finds from the woman’s grave at Trå.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_364-4.jpg?itok=poBlgKBf)
![Prospectus of Bukken 1808.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_274-1.jpg?itok=pY2NbrWF)
Bukken
In Christian IV’s diary from Norgesreisa (trip to Norway) in 1599, we find the reference or anecdote that is the origin of the name Bukken. A Dutch full-rigged ship once passed the mountain outcrops on the island with the guesthouse so close that a ram grazing there jumped down on a yardarm (rånokk), thus the name “Buch van Raa!”
![Glesvær at the turn of the century.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_275z_0.jpg?itok=tY8fVOFn)
Glesvær- Trading post
Glesvær is one of the oldest trading posts on the West Norwegian coast. In the 1700s and 1800s this was the most important fishing centre on Sotra. The first certain mention of the trading station Glesvær is in 1664. At that time it was the Bergen merchant Hendrich Wessel who owned the place and was in the possession of a trading privilege. Abraham Wessel, who took over in 1688 also obtained Royal Privilege for “Kiøbmandskab med Bønderne alleene at drive” (the only one to be allowed to carry on trade with the farmers).
![Curvy scours in the bedrock (](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sund_23.jpg?itok=fisI_JUk)
Golta- Gneiss
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and make it dangerous to walk along the shoreline. When the storms have calmed, the results of their work comes into view.
![The long house at Golta, Sund](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_276-1.jpg?itok=qlke6iyO)
Golta- Long house
In the years between the wars a major registration of houses and house costumes, house construction methods, fireplaces and forms of housing clusters was started in West Norway – an ambitious mapping of everything that came under the name “Registration of Culture and Geography in West Norway”. One of the places of which material was gathered in 1938 was an old multi-room house at Golta; new and interesting material for the researchers from the Historical Museum, but well known within the local building tradition through several generations.