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The wheelhouse at Hovdanes, Tysnes

Hovdanes

30.03.2018 - 20:24

Boat bow of oak shaped like an animal head.

Dalland

19.06.2018 - 17:15

Onarheim

19.06.2018 - 17:45

Ådlandsstova, as it stood at Nedre Ådland, Stord

Ådlandsstova

31.03.2018 - 14:36

The Ådland house is one of the biggest medieval houses still existing in West Norway. It is constructed from unusually large, hard fir wood, beautifully oval-cut. One story links the cottage to the Gildeskålbakken at Orninggård (Lower Ådland); thus indicating that the cottage has been the medieval banqueting hall. The building has been dated back to the 13-1400s by carbon dating.

Coat of arms, Orning

Orninggård

19.06.2018 - 16:35

Oyster farmer Alf-Roald Sætre of the Espevik dam

Espevikpollen

07.01.2019 - 20:13

Dalskarvatnet

Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen

17.12.2018 - 12:40

Many of the fossils one finds on Stord are related to fossils of the same age found in North America. Scientists thinks this indicates that the bedrock on Stord was much nearer to America at that time than today.

Nils Hertzber’s watercolour from 1829 gives us an impression of the burial site with the menhirs at Årbakkesanden.

Årbakka- The prehistoric site

19.06.2018 - 17:47

The prehistoric site at Årbakkasanden with menhirs and burial mounds has been visited, described and illustrated by many learned researchers through the last 350 years. All the same, we still know very little of this unique cultural monument.