Before the Forest finns

Östmark and Lekvattnet

Northwest of the village Torsby lies Lekvattnet and Östmark.

The long valleys, has always been considered to been” Swede district”, while the woodland been considered as” Finnish districts”.

The area was checked 1996-1997.At that time onw found seven iron request places and about 130 carbon pits. This carbon pits has been erected in order to produce carbons, that was necessary for the iron request process. The bargains show on big production areas and extensive iron request.

Two off the iron request places have been dated. Both shows itself have been to use from viiking age/means time even first half. The new knowledge shows thus that the pimples not where the first to use these forest areas. The people in the district used itself of the woodlands several hundred years before the pimples arrived.

The text the while from “Kravmärkt Aktuellt om kulturmiljövårdsarbeten vid Värmlands Museum År 2003"”

The project forest and history are run of the forestry conservation board since 1995. Those who works in the project is etc. personnel from the employment offices. The aim is to increase the knowledge about remains in woodland. One has registered all from stone age settlements to carbon bottoms from 1900-talet.

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