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Eidsbøen

13.03.2018 - 20:58

Where the school and the sports facility lie at Eidsbøen there was previously a bog surrounded by small hillocks. More than 1000 years ago this was a holy place, where the dead were buried.

Cross-leaved heath (Akvarell: Miranda Bødtker)

Steinevik

31.03.2018 - 19:37

Boat bow of oak shaped like an animal head.

Dalland

19.06.2018 - 17:15

Leech (Jan Rabben)

Flakkavågen

19.06.2018 - 17:19

Onarheim

19.06.2018 - 17:45

Reksteren (Svein Nord)

Vernøya

19.06.2018 - 17:46

If you smell a foul smell out in nature, you mustn't immediately think that the reason is cloaca from houses or cabins. The reason can be an entirely natural process that occurs when plants are broken down under special conditions. When there is little oxygen available, hydrogen sulphide can be produced. This is a gas that seeps up from the earth and smells like rotten eggs.

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.