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![Potholes by the Koldals River](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/fokllk.jpg?itok=MZgPWao9)
Eikelandsosen
"So many and such big potholes as are found at Eikelandsosen, we don't see other places in western Norway, and as beautifully polished as the mountainside is along the river up to Koldal , one would look a long time to see anywhere else. There is much to dazzle a geologist's eyes. If only these features could bring others the same joy!"
![The man from Holmefjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_246-7.jpg?itok=XaoETJFZ)
Holmefjord
Even though we know of several hundred burial places from the Stone Age in Hordaland, we do not often hit on the Stone Age Man himself. But there are a few.
![Drawing of runic letters engraved in a carving knife from Fløksand.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/linalaukrf.gif?itok=9G3iwJhY)
![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
![Kotedalen, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_302_zz.jpg?itok=fngzYBml)
Fosnstraumen
At the southern end of the bridge between Radøy and Fosnøy archaeologists found an unusual Stone Age settlement. There was a thick “cultural layer” here with the remains of the waste dumps of a hunting people. The place was called Kotedalen. Here they came, one group after the other, and settled for some weeks, some months, or maybe years before they went on, leaving the settlement deserted. Time after time it happened. At least 16 settlement phases have been identified, stretching over 5,500 years.
![Two of the rowlocks which have been found in the bogs Mangersnes, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_301-3.jpg?itok=UOKNndXl)
![The farms on Toska lie on moraine soils from the Herdla moraine.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/radoy_21.jpg?itok=Zzbp7oRx)
Toska
The peat bogs on Toska have been mined for peat since 1946, when the island got electricity. In this treeless coastal landscape, peat was the most important source of energy, and this took quite a toll on the bogs.
![Garnets at Vågenes](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/radoy_6.jpg?itok=atL5iY_1)
Vågenes
On Vågenes, on one of the prominences out toward Eitrevågen, one finds garnets in anorthosite. The garnets are both older, and not least bigger, than average.
![The Battle of Fitjar from Erik Werenskiold pen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_214-2_ny.jpg?itok=_9eechIK)
Fitjar- the King's farm
In front of Fitjar Church there is a memorial stone, sculpted by Anne Grimdalen and erected in 1961, for the thousand-year memorial of one of the most dramatic events in Norway’s history, the Battle of Fitjar. This was the place where Norway’s king, Håkon the Good, suffered his fatal injury in the fight with Eirik’s sons, probably in the year 961.
![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?