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![Rope making](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-260-verftet.jpg?itok=ViAYY7jN)
Sandviken
Close to the tunnel opening at Amalie Skrams vei in Ssandviken, there is a cultural monument of European dimensions; a rope making works that produced rope and fishing tackle for West and North Norway.
![Burial mounds at Hæreid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/haegreid.jpg?itok=LEb0sJkP)
Hæreid- archaeology
The biggest prehistoric burial site in Hordaland is situated at Hæreid. On top of the terrace expanse, inside the fine birch garden, is where they lie, the mounds and stone piles, on their own or in clusters, large and small, round and elongated – at least 350 in all.
![Halnelægeret.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_409-2.jpg?itok=hEx5mouW)
Halne
At Halnefjorden, a few hundred metres east of Halne mountain lodge, lie the remains of two stone sheds – Halnelægeret. Some generations ago the cattle drovers stopped here in the summer; they were the cowboys of their time. But Halnelægeret already had a long history before the cattle drovers came.
![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.
![The rock paintings in Grødalshaug, Os](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_234-x.jpg?itok=3teSxvuP)
Grødalshaug
At the bottom of Vargavågen on Halhjem lies Grødalshaug, a 30 metres high rocky outcrop between the bay and a moist valley cleft. On the south side of the rock is a steep rock cliff facing the valley, the bog and the stream. On this rock face we find rock carvings from the Bronze Age.
![The rock carvings at Bakko.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/190/kvh_384-23.jpg?itok=SkUv1D2l)
Bakko
Everyone knows the famous painting by Tidemand & Gude “Brudeferden i Hardanger” (The Wedding Party in Hardanger) one of the great icons in the National Gallery. Some have, in a humorous lack of respect for this masterpiece linked the concept of “bride’s passage” to another pictorial presentation in Hardanger. This is found on the farm Bakko in Herand, carved in the rock by an unknown artist around 3,000 years ago.
![Blanks for bowls and ladles](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_231-4.jpg?itok=EnFHKTo-)
Eidsbøen
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.
![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.
![The rock carving ship on Samnøya, Fusa](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/awdawdawd.jpg?itok=c-c6gsY7)
![Hallingskeid](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_360-4_0.jpg?itok=jjyCUd7C)