or is a village in
Hamarøy Municipality
or is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Oppeid ...
in
Nordland
Nordland (; , , , ) is one of the three northernmost Counties of Norway, counties in Norway in the Northern Norway region, bordering Troms in the north, Trøndelag in the south, Norrbotten County in Sweden to the east, Västerbotten County to t ...
county,
Norway
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. It's located on the eastern shore of the lake
Rotvatnet, about south of the municipal centre,
Oppeid
or is the administrative centre of Hamarøy Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about southwest of the town of Narvik. It is located right next to the village of Presteid on a small isthmus of land between the Ka ...
. Tømmerneset is the site of
Tømmernes Church. The village area is located where
County Road 835 (and the
Steigen Tunnel
The Steigen Tunnel () is a road tunnel in Nordland county, Norway. The long tunnel is located on the Norwegian County Road 835 highway in Hamarøy Municipality and Steigen Municipality. The tunnel begins at the village of Tømmerneset in Hamar ...
) branches off from the
European Road E6 highway.
Archaeology
There is
rock art
In archaeology, rock arts are human-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. A high proportion of surviving historic and prehistoric rock art is found in caves or partly enclosed rock shelters; this type al ...
dating to the Stone Age "near the bridge over Sagelva".
Tømmerneset
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See also
* Rock art at an eponymous place in another county
References
Hamarøy
Villages in Nordland
Populated places of Arctic Norway
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