Editing Loppa Municipality (section)

=== Viking Age ===
In 1962 a rich female [[Viking Age]] grave was discovered on the island of Loppa. It contained luxurious personal objects such as tortoise brooches, a round brooch in the [[Viking art|Oseberg style]], a whalebone plaque, beads, knife, scissor and an arrowhead. The female grave was dubbed "The Queens Grave" due to the manner in which she was buried. However she was most likely not a queen but a very important person indeed on Viking Age Loppa. Perhaps a housewife of a local chieftain? The wealth of the grave reflects that of the Norse elite's presence in the area. The burial was dated to the 9th century AD.<ref name="Bratrein 1996" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Storli |first=Inger |title=Hålogaland før rikssamlingen |publisher=Institutt for sammenliknende forskning |year=2006}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Bratrein |first=Håvard Dahl |title=Feltrapport fra 1994}}</ref>

In 1964 a longhouse from Viking Age was also discovered dated to the end of the 8th century AD. Several other buildings and boathouses was also discovered and dated to the same period as the longhouse and the rich female grave. There is also several burials from Iron Age on the island, where the biggest a burial cairn with the size of 13 meters in diameter. The amount of Iron Age burials and houses suggests that of a more permanent Norse settlement.<ref name=":0" />