SW Norway

Kvenadhøla sawmill, inland Rogaland
Ca. 1890
Kvenadhøla was one of
many sawmills in inland SW
Norway that sawed lumber
using water power for the
‘skottehandel’, or ‘Scottish
Trade’ – ie for export - in the
later 17th to 19 th centuries.
2004
The trade took its name
from the dominance of
Scotland as a destination for
the timber, and lead to
further substantial declines
in the remaining forests of
inland SW Norway
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