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Cave from the Stone Age

On Valderøy in Giske lies the cave Skjonghelleren up in the mountainside. You can walk and crawl into the 100 metres deep tunnel, and study where people lived back in the Stone Age. Traces of wildlife dating 30.000 years back have also been found.

Cave from the Stone Age
Photo: Giske Kommune

Skjonghelleren is situated on Valderøy in Giske municipality, and is an exciting cave 57 metres up in the mountain side. The cave has got a 100 metres deep tunnel, and you can walk while standing up straight until you reach the final 30 metres.

There has been found traces of settlement dating back to the Stone Age here, when the neighbour island Giske barely had risen from the ocean after the last Ice Age. There has also been found traces of wildlife dating over 30.000 years back in Skjonghelleren, and you can hear more about it at Godøy Coastal Museum.

Changed   7/16/2010  
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Skjonghelleren

Skjonghelleren is situated on Valderøy in Giske municipality, and is an exciting cave 57 metres up in the mountain side. The cave has got a 100 metres deep tunnel, and you can walk while standing up straight until you reach the final 30 metres. There...
Address: 6050 Valderøya
Telephone: 70 18 80 00
Email: post@giske.kommune.no

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Giske

Giske municipality

Giske municipality is situated just west of Ålesund, and the island community is connected to Ålesund through two long sub-sea tunnels. The municipality has got around 6.800 inhabitants spread out on the four islands of Giske, Godøy, Vigra and Valderøy,...
Address: 6050 Valderøya
Telephone: 70 18 80 00
Email: post@giske.kommune.no


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Giske is specially rich in burial mounds and graves from the stone age and on. Mjeltehaugen at Giskegjerdet is approximately 30 metres in diameter. Among others, a decorated stone chest was found here. The Eilif grave at Godøy is a 5 m tall burial mound...
Address: 6050 Valderøya
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