The Iron Age Farm
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The Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug is a reconstructed farm complex from the time of the Great Migrations, approximately AD 350-550. The farmstead is located on the top of Ullandhaug, around 3 km from the centre of Stavanger, and has a magnificent view of North-Jæren and the Hafrsfjord. The Iron Age Farm at Ullandhaug, the only one of its kind in Norway, was reconstructed on the tofts of a farmstead from the Migration Period. The three houses are fitted up with equipment and domestic utensils, and a fire is burning on the original hearths.

As a guest, you will be received at the Iron Age Farm by the mistress of the house and her people.

The mistress of the house will give you a tour of the farmstead, and if you are lucky, you will be able to taste her fresh “hellekake”, a type of flat bread baked on a slab of stone. It will fill you with a strange feeling to sit here like this, knowing that a family was sitting around this very fire-place 1500 years ago.

The Iron Age Farm is a foundation placed under the Museum of Archaeology in Stavanger.