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![Potholes by the Koldals River](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fokllk.jpg?itok=MZgPWao9)
Eikelandsosen
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountainside is along the river up to Koldal , one would look a long time to see anywhere else. There is much to dazzle a geologist's eyes. If only these features could bring others the same joy!"
![The man from Holmefjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_246-7.jpg?itok=XaoETJFZ)
Holmefjord
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are a few.
![Part of the Yddal nature preserve seen from the air.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fusa_17.jpg?itok=zg9HUkfS)
Yddal
Yddal is one of the biggest and finest pine forest areas in the county. The rich forest resources provided an important foundation for the settlement of Yddal. Up until about the 1950s, there were three farms here. Where the lumberjacks couldn't get to, the trees grew very big and can be over 300 years old.
![Gamalt postopneri, Øpstad i Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_245-x.jpg?itok=p6Gt3T-l)
Øpstad
The post house at Øpstad stands out in the landscape. An ochre yellow house with a loft and a white-painted house in Swiss style with ochre edgings, bears witness to a well preserved house from the 1800s, nearest neighbour to the beautiful old vicarage. In the Øpstad hamlet there was a post office for more than a hundred years, until the 1970s. Today it is possible to walk the old post road across the mountain to Strandvik, as part of “Den Stavangerske Postvei” (The post road to Stavanger).
![Agastølen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_408-1.jpg?itok=A8Uylnnb)
Agastølen
Whoever wanders the mountain plateau will form time to time hit upon old mountain summer farms, with solid old stone sheds, half sunk into the ground; a building tradition that has roots into prehistoric times. When we have been satiated with untouched Nature, it is somewhat comforting to come upon the old mountain chalets - they represent a type of human encroachment that we not only accept, but appreciate. They arouse a feeling of recognition and are a distinct witness to how people in the rural communities have made use of even the most remote resources.
![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.
![Vegane gjennom den tronge og bratte Måbødalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_407-1.jpg?itok=jN0RFHBc)
![The mountainside in Sysendalen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_28.jpg?itok=aOUhxIsm)
Sysendalen
If you are lucky you can find 9000-year-old pine stumps on Hardangervidda. Since that time, the tree line has continuously declined. But now, it is on its way back up again.
![The cowshed at Kolåseidet, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_299-1-1.jpg?itok=Oj5N5nT0)
Kolåseidet
The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. On the border between the home fields and the forest, the cowshed is the very symbol of a simple resource management - the division between the cropland and the grazing grounds. And the way it was built has its roots far back in time.