The Braaid

54.157361111111 - 4.5663888888889Koordinaten: 54 ° 9 ' 27 " N, 4 ° 33 ' 59 " W

The Braaid was originally thought to be a stone circle, accompanied by two rows of stones, of the Stone or Bronze Age. The ensemble is situated in the municipality Marown fields, west of Douglas halfway to Foxdale in the southern part of the Isle of Man. Today the complex for an iron Temporal round house with unusually high stone content and two buildings of northern origin in the 11th or 12th century is held.

The round house was about 16.5 m in diameter. Its shape is determined by massive stones that formed the outer rim. The double walls were made of stone with a filling of earth. The roof consisted of turf sods that were on rafters, which were supported by wooden posts. Longhouse 1 was a 20 × 9 meters measured hall without any partitions. With these dimensions, it reaches twice the size of normal houses of this period. It had curved outer walls of peat. The headboards were made of wood.

The statement that the longhouse was home to two animals, based on the stone boxes along the north wall. The building is equipped with 18 × 8 meters only slightly smaller than the nave, however, one has straight walls. The roof was lower and lighter.

The size of the buildings indicates that the place was more than a farm. The Braaid is the best preserved structure of its kind on the Isle of Man. Excavations carried out in 1942 by HJ Fleure and M. Dunlop and in 1964 by Gelling.