Editing Loppa Municipality (section)

=== Roman Age ===
Little is known of this period historically and archaeologically in this area. However the discovering of a [[Roman Age]] longhouse from 120 AD,<ref name="Bratrein 1996">{{Cite book |last=Bratrein |first=Håvard Dahl |title=Ottar Tidsskrift |publisher=Tromsø Museum |year=1996}}</ref> at the island of Loppa shows the earliest signs of settlement in the [[Iron Age|Early Iron Age]]. Perhaps was this the very beginning of Norse taxation of the Sami peoples in the area and the interaction between the two peoples of trade and commerce in fishing and the industry of the hunting of maritime mammals.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Ellingsen |first=Gøran Hálfdanarson |title=Loppa - An Iron Age settlement in the periphery of Hálogaland |url=https://www.academia.edu/38183548 |language=no |year=2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Henriksen |first=Jørn Erik |date=1995 |title=Hellegropene, fornminner fra en funntom periode |url=https://www.academia.edu/1947438 |website=Academia.edu}}</ref> The longhouse is also one of the oldest one ever discovered in [[Northern Norway]].