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Sålesnes
12.03.2019 - 15:39
Jondal has one of the country’s oldest slate quarries. Roof tiles have been extracted here since the end of the 1700s, but the quarry is much older. Kvernurdi is mentioned in a diploma in 1421, when Bård Sigurdsson at Torsnes became the owner through a settlement. Already then it must have been customary to cut millstones here.
Last changed: 12.03.2019 | Content type: Place
Einstapevoll- slates
06.05.2019 - 09:53
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their distant fields”.
Last changed: 06.05.2019 | Content type: Place