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Staveneset
Staveneset is one of only two places in Norway that contain both burial mounds and rock carvings. The site has a number of Bronze Age rock carvings, and 85 petroglyphs are known. Of these, 37 are boats, 4 are ring figures, 1 is a line figure, 3 are cornered figures, 33 are cup marks, and…
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The Millstones in Losna
The quarries are located on Kvernberget on Losna and consist of two separate quarry sites, differing from the garnet mica schist in Hyllestad. There are two coves close to the quarries, and along the shore stone slabs were placed that made it possible to pull boats ashore.
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Leirvåg
The rock carvings on Atløy are located at the farm Leirvåg. Fifty-six motifs are distributed between two main localities on the farm. Forty-three of the motifs are boats, 3 are human figures, 3 are ring figures, 1 is a line figure and 3 are cup marks. Burial mounds from the Bronze Age lie within one…
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Statuen av Ingolf Arnarson
The statue of Ingolf Arnarson was erected in Rivedal in 1961, and is a copy of the statue erected in Reykjavik by Einar Jónsson in 1907. Landnámabók from Iceland states that Ingolf Arnarson was the first person to settle Iceland, and that he came from “Dalsfirdi i Fjolum”, Dalsfjorden in Fjordane. The Dalsfjord region has…
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Strandavågen
This fine locality contains a small eroded valley or depression in the ocean-floor crust from the Devonian period, filled with layered red sandstone and siltstone beds at the bottom. This formation is then covered by a thick layer of coarse conglomerate.
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Skarpneset
At this site, you find ripple marks in the Devonian sandstone, a feature often seen in modern environments such as riverbeds, tidal flats and shoreline zones. These ripple marks are preserved in a sandstone layer within a conglomerate formation and indicate that the basin in the Devonian probably contained water, or that there was a…
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Losna
The south coast of the island of Losna offers sections through the upper parts of the Nordfjord-Sogn detachment zone. The trace of the fault through the southern parts of the island is a spectacular sight, especially from a boat. Here, you can see the detachment fault at the foot of the vertical cliffs, which consist…
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Sørkysten av Sula
The south coast of the island of Sula, southwest of Losna, offers a fully exposed section through the uppermost parts of the Nordfjord-Sogn detachment zone. Particularly clear are the brittle fault rocks, which lie above mylonitic and phyllonitic rocks along a narrow strip by the coast. The fault zone is easy to identify along the…
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Karstadskaret
This site offers a unique opportunity to study one of the largest visible detachment zones in the world. The conglomerates and the mylonites beneath the fault are gradually transformed into finely crushed rocks within the detachment zone. At the same time, there is a clear boundary against the Devonian conglomerates lying above the fault plane.…
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Skaraly
This is a fine walk to the Skaraly day-use cabin, through mylonite in the shear zone (the Nordfjord–Sogn detachment zone) and up to the Dalsfjord fault. The area around the cabin offers a particularly fine view towards Litlehesten and southwards across the landscape of Hyllestad. It is clear how the schist-rich mylonites in the detachment…
