Hammarsland at the Gjøna lake, halfway into the Kikedalen, has an old farm settlement. On one side of the road through the farmyard there has been a house dating from the Middle Ages, joined to a scullery and a frame-built storage house, on the other side of the road there was a house with a loft from the 1800s joined with a large stave hayshed. On the farm there is also a storehouse on stilts and a “window-house” (glasstove) with fine rose paintings from the middle of 1800.
The cultural landscape around the farmstead at Hammarsland provides a close account of the resources in the barter economy on a farm with one living unit in the Middle Ages, with fields, forest and fishing lakes.
