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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.

Lyse Monastery, reconstruction

Lyse Monastery

16.06.2018 - 15:56

Up to the 1870s Osøyra was a military training area.

Osøyro

16.06.2018 - 16:00

The coastal settlement of Os begins to take form in the middle of the 1800s. This is when craftsmen and traders begin to settle at the river delta.

Boat bow of oak shaped like an animal head.

Dalland

19.06.2018 - 17:15

«Tysnes Fjord from Tysnes Oen»

Lokksundet

19.06.2018 - 17:43

If you should happen to be in a small boat in Lokksundet sound when the ocean currents from the fjord meet the counter currents in the sound, you will almost certainly wish you were on dry land! Under such conditions, the waves can become so high and so steep that they break.

Onarheim

19.06.2018 - 17:45

Ulevn Camp around 1915.

Ulven camp

16.06.2018 - 16:03

Varghola

Vargavågen

13.03.2018 - 21:35