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![Nils Hertzberg’s prospectus from 1825 of “Ålmerket” and the site of the long ship shed.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_390-4.jpg?itok=xZB1WC6Y)
Kinsarvik
Kinsarvik has probably been a centre for the inner Hardanger districts back in prehistory. History tells us that in medieval times there was a marketing place, a “kaupang”, here; a connecting point in the communications between east and west. There were supposedly around 300 residents here but the place was likely wiped out in a great fire.
![The road Stamnes-Eidslandet](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_336_zzz.jpg?itok=HOHn9Gl1)
Dalseid- Eidslandet road construction
![Boatshed](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_335-3.jpg?itok=egD0W5wD)
![Drawing of how it might have looked at Straume 7000 years ago.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_32.jpg?itok=LfWFLsDG)
Skipshelleren
For vel 7000 år sidan var Straume ein av dei beste – om ikkje den beste – veideplassen i Hordaland. Steinalderfolket som busette seg ved Skipshelleren, skjøna truleg ikkje kor heldige dei var. Mellom dei opptil 2 meter tjukke dyngjene med stein og bein som arkeologar grov fram i 1931–32, fann dei reiskapar og avfall frå fangst og matstell. Frå dette materialet har arkeologane stava seg fram til livet ved straumen.
![Boathouses in Breiviksunde](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_287-2.jpg?itok=IO29IAY2)
![Varghola](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_235-_x.jpg?itok=oGVCMzhh)
![From the old road along the Åkrafjord](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_190_akrafjord_veg_2_150.jpg?itok=0G_IOg6S)
![Ullensvang](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_393-1.jpg?itok=d1meAEuf)
Ullensvang church
Ullensvang church, situated beside the vicarage, in idyllic surroundings on the headland just inside Lofthus municipality, is mentioned for the first time in written sources in 1309. At that time the present Gothic stone church must have been new. Judging by the style in the western portal and the eastern chancel windows, the church must have been built around 1300 or just before, probably by builders from Bergen influenced by the English Gothic style.
![Aga farmyard](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_389-2x.jpg?itok=Exy3i-3z)
Aga
The grand farm Aga on the west side of Sørfjorden, came under protection in 1937, when the agricultural reform threatened to disperse the old clustered settlement. “Lagmannsstova”, named after the “lagmann” (law speaker) Sigurd Brynjulfsson, was already protected in 1924; one of the authentic profane wooden buildings from the Middle Ages still standing. All the same it is the farmyard itself that is the key cultural monument.
![Today Jåstadstova is placed at Hardanger Folk High School at Lofthus](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_388-1.jpg?itok=XiKCdQX1)
Jåstad
The farm Jåstad, situated a few kilometres north of Agatunet, must have been a grand farm in medieval times. Torolf on Jåstad is mentioned as arbitration moderator in 1293, and in the vaulted corridor at Lyse Kloster Sigurd, farmer at Jåstad, and his wife Sigrid – the king’s kinswoman - are buried.