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Mosterhamn

Mosterhamn

03.09.2020 - 10:50

Mosterhamn is one of the old privileged trading posts situated centrally in the shipping lane, whether the ships sailed on Langenuten, Nyeleia through Fitjar or into the Hardanger Fjord. From prehistoric times Bømlo and Moster were the first landing places when arriving from the west; a landscape with good harbours.

Scythes used to be made in the brick house just across the motorway through Folkedal

Nedre Folkedal

26.05.2018 - 11:44

For many years the Folkedal scythe had a good reputation. Immediately above the highway through Folkedal there is a long brick building, on the inner side of the river. Here production of scythes went on to the beginning of the 1950s.

The hayshed in Håvik, Bømlo

Outer Håvika

16.11.2022 - 13:19

From Rubbestadneset.

Rubbestadneset

18.06.2018 - 20:20

Selsøya

19.05.2018 - 20:37

Skjervet, approx. 1900

Skjervet- road construction

26.05.2018 - 11:45

The road between Eide in Granvin and Voss is one of the oldest roads mentioned in the Middle Ages. In a diploma from 1343 from Voss regarding distribution of road works, we also find mention of the road to Angr (the Granvin fjord).

Slåtterøy lighthouse, Bømlo

Slåtterøy

19.05.2018 - 20:30

Storegraven and Granvin church

Storegraven

26.05.2018 - 11:46

The first mention of Granvin church in written sources is in 1306, but the church location must be far older than this. The farm Storegraven is centrally situated at Granvinsvatnet, by the important traffic artery between Hardanger and Voss, where the road takes off to Ulvik.

Finds from the woman’s grave at Trå.

Trå

26.05.2018 - 11:46

The “window house” at Ystås

Ystås

26.05.2018 - 11:47

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