Buktasetra

The Bukta sheiling and the area of summer pasture for cattle, sheep etc.

This sheiling belongs to the Bukta farm which is situated down by the fjord. The farm was one of the cotters´ farms belonging to the vicarage, but in 1927 it was sold, and it got its own municipality-land number/title number.

The house was built during World War 2. The house of the Bukta sheiling is rather traditional, but it has a special architecture. It has two floors with a small room in the attic where the milkmaid could spend the night.

Indoors there is a small stove, but the body temperature of the cows in the cowshed provided for some of the warmth in the milkmaid´s attic. There are 5 stalls for the cows in the barn. The cows were milked by hand in the morning and in the evening. Every day the milk was carried down to the Bukta farm. With the yoke across the shoulder and a bucket on each side the carrier went by foot down the hills. The Bukta sheiling was used until the late 1950s. This cultural heritage reminds us about a time of work and ordeals, in which valuable resources in the rangeland were exploited in a different way than today.

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The milkmaid could spend the night in the attic.

The Bukta sheiling.

The cows were milked by hand.