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![There are many puffins in the sea around the bridge](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/meland_8.jpg?itok=5TiJeTbf)
Salhusfjorden
When the debate about building a pontoon bridge over Salhus Fjord was raging, some were afraid that the bridge would disrupt the ecology of the fjord system inside. The worst predictions did not prove true, but it is easy to see that there was a change: the Puffins have gotten a new food platter after the Nordhordaland bridge was built. Its favourite meal, mussels, thrive on the pontoons that are the foundation for the bridge.
![Kossdalsvegen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_326-3.jpg?itok=8lv-rJyz)
Litlandsvatnet
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period of operation from 1882 to 1945, 4170 tonnes of pure nickel were extracted from 462 000 tonnes of ore, a large production by Norwegian standards.
![The Ostra chests are easily recognisable with their characteristic style.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_327-1.jpg?itok=x-fr2TBj)
Mjøsvågen
Around Mjøsvågen here is still a compact marine use area. Some of the buildings are common boathouses, but most of them also house small enterprises and workshops. This is where the farmers from Øvsthus, Mjøs, Hole and other farms have supplemented their meagre incomes as smiths, brass moulders, clog makers, chest builders and decorative painters.
![Silver dinar](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_325-3.jpg?itok=9lwSwy0C)
![“The Karla Tannery”, Valestrand](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_324-1.jpg?itok=sLMcAPbz)
Valestrandsfossen- tanning industry
Valestrand became a centre for the tanning industry in Osterøy; one of the old crafts that has developed into a local industry with many places of work. From the 1870s ever more ventures were started. Many of the large sea houses we see today around the bay have been places for tanning and leather enterprises.
![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.
![The cowshed at Kolåseidet, Radøy](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_299-1-1.jpg?itok=Oj5N5nT0)
Kolåseidet
The little cowshed which lies on the fence at Kolåseidet, constructed in connection with the stone fence, has put its mark on the cultural landscape. On the border between the home fields and the forest, the cowshed is the very symbol of a simple resource management - the division between the cropland and the grazing grounds. And the way it was built has its roots far back in time.
![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 old communal hamlet before 1910.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh_333-4.jpg?itok=ruUK20e1)
Dale farm
The Dale farm lies well situated on the gravel by the river, below the mountain Beitelen. But a few stone throws further north, on the wide expanse behind the houses, there has been an older farmstead. Here there have been found a number of cooking hollows, pole holes, an old road and traces of something believed to have been a palisade. Finds from this oldest farmstead may be dated to the time of the migrations, 400-600 years A.D.