A Celtic & Viking Farmstead

A site at the Braaid remains one of the most enigmatic in the Island. Originally thought to be a prehistoric stone circle with two stone alignments, it has now been re-interpreted as a stone-built roundhouse and two longhouses. This is the only Manx example of a Celtic farmstead taken over and adapted by the Vikings for their own use. The site was later abandoned because it was too wet, and probably relocated to one of the nearby quarterland farmsteads still in use today; the remains of other Viking farmsteads may still survive beneath many of these quarterland farms.