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Prehistoric times
At Gunnarshedleren, the rock overhangs the ground, making it a perfect place for storing hay or use as a shelter. Often the hay would be transported home on sledges after the first snow had fallen.
There are many such places spread in the area, the most famous being in Jøssingfjord where there are two cottages built underneath it
Man has left traces in the Dalane region as long back as the end of the last Ice-Age, around 9000 BC. The people living back then were hunters and it
was not until around 1500 BC, in the Bronze-Age that they gave up their nomadic lives and started to settle down.
Hunting and fishing has been important up to quite recent times, though.
I will assume that Åvendal was settled before the Black-Death(1349-50), but no written sources mention Åvendal in that period.
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