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![The marine shed at Hollmeknappe, Meland](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_296-1_0.jpg?itok=bMReCI2n)
Holmeknappen
If you come by sea to Bergen and come up the Herdle Fjord, the yellow ochre marine shed at Holmeknappen is a well known landmark to starboard as you come close to the little shore settlement. In olden days Holmenknappen served important functions as a centre for a wide hinterland of the surrounding farms, warehouse, landing point, country store and later a steamer quay, a hotel (1896) and a dairy (1909). But today Holmeknappen is no longer a focal point. Transport and commercial routes have changed the old pattern
![Rock inscriptions at Helgaberget.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-etne-3_img_1.jpg?itok=HCOBcyqm)
Helgaberget
Helgaberget – the holy hill – is a little rocky crag which thrusts itself a few metres above the terraced surface of Støle. The surface of the rock is strewn with figures inscribed in the rock and it was, as far as one can judge, a cult centre in the Bronze Ages. The name could indicate that the tradition of holiness can have lasted for almost 3,000 years.
![From Grønafjellet toward Kattnakken.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fi_16.jpg?itok=aYyd-7QK)
Grønafjellet
Mountain plants with their beautiful, colourful flowers are common in high altitude areas in Norway. On the coast there are not so many of them. But, here and there one nonetheless finds mountain plants, and this makes some coastal mountainsides a little bit different. Perhaps the growth on these mountainsides gives us a little glimpse of a distant past?
![Smedholmen, Fitjar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_219-_bu.jpg?itok=RVN_WnRB)
![Aksnesholmane](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvam_56.jpg?itok=Y-S_NZ5r)
Aksnesholmane
There are especially many seabirds inwards along the fjords of western Norway. There are not many islets, either, so if the birds want to nest, it is not always easy to find good sites. At Aksnesholmane there is an impressive colony of gulls, and the locality has been protected since 1923.
![Sash-saw](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-375-stekka.jpg?itok=RgEApthy)
Berge
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and rocks, even manifest in the name. Here is also a comprehensive milieu of coastal industry, with boathouses and sea-sheds that belong to the farms Berge, Heradstveit and Halleråker. Belonging to the farm Berge there is also a mill-house, circular saw, workshop for sloop building, and – a little further up into the woods – the old water-powered sash-saw.
![Bruosen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_376-1_z.jpg?itok=OZpy9qgo)
Bru
Bruosen is one of the few river harbours in the county. As landing place for the churchgoers, this place and the boatshed environment follow a tradition that goes back to the Middle Ages, but the country store of today is much younger.
![Sandven hotel](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_371-1.jpg?itok=3gVdslLW)
![Hunter carvings](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_373-3.jpg?itok=ZQEWPiHG)
Vangdal
At Salthamaren in Vangdalsberget it is thought that salt was burned some time in history, and deep layers of coal in the ground show that fire has been made up here several times. But they were hardly salt-burners, the first people who stopped here. Some of them carved figures into the rock. On top of the rocky outcrop, furthest out on the cliff, a group of Stone Age hunters carved animal figures. More than 1,500 years later Bronze Age farmers drew ship figures at the foot of the rock. Both these works of art - some of the oldest in Hordaland – are still visible, carved in the rock at Salthamaren.
![Vesoldo](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/nv_465.jpg?itok=0QTt1JUj)
Vesoldo
Folds are to be found everywhere in the remains of the Caledonian mountain chain. Some were formed during the collision with Greenland, others stem from the time when the mountain chain collapsed. Few can compare with the giant fold that remains in the mountain area around Tørvikenuten, Vesoldo and Hellefjellet.