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![«Parti af Stømsnæs ved Bergen».](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/askoy_6_0.jpg?itok=KmaRpfwP)
![Stone quarry in Kollevågen, 1922](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/askoy_21.jpg?itok=Xnws-T7D)
![Os rectory](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_236xxx.jpg?itok=hO_YXv5o)
![The trading post Kvalesund in Os, around 1900](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_234-2.jpg?itok=-lYQR4ZE)
![Geologist William Helland-Hansen examining a quartz conglomerate in the Ulven Syncline on one of the hills by the north west end of Lake Ulvenvatnet.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/os_31.jpg?itok=kdZe21Du)
Ulven
In the region of Ulven phyllite occurs with Hordaland's youngest fossils, and a beautiful quartz conglomerate. The phyllite and conglomerate got squeezed into the bottom of an ancient oceanic crust, made of gabbro and greenstone, in the heart of the Caledonide mountain chain.
![Skrivargarden in “”Kåravikjo”.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_210-2.jpg?itok=sQdjqHps)
![Coat of arms, Orning](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_209-1.jpg?itok=48LepR7r)
![Leirvik (Stord), around 1910](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_208-1.jpg?itok=4Zov-htE)
Leirvik- The trading post
Already in the Middle Ages the good harbour at Leirvik provided a connecting point. Here was a court of law, and a guesthouse was established here in the 1600s. But Leirvik never achieved the status of a trading post or a ship-loading place. In the census of 1865 parts of the farms Nordre Bjelland, Leirvik and Orninggård are mentioned as the “Coastal district of Lervig”. And the community grew around the old guesthouse location early in the 1800s.
![Dalskarvatnet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/stord_46.jpg?itok=Alucy1eG)
Dalskarvatnet–Dyvikvågen
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.