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This stone circle once stood surrounding a cairn at NO 5413 6934. Nothing now remains of the circle or the cairn.
"The site of a cairn, 40' in diameter, surrounded by a double circle 50' or 60' in diameter composed of 20 or 30 large stones of which only one remained in 1843.
The cairn, according to Ramsay who removed it, contained 400 cart-loads of stones, According to Jervise it was composed of small stones to a depth of 3' under which lay a quantity of black, clammy earth mixed with charcoal, while a 2' wide track of loose, red sandstone, a few inches deep, ran through this deposit to the outer circle on either side. The perimeter of the cairn was visible c 1861 as a slightly raised area and the sole survivor of the encircling stones stood 5'4" high and was 9' in circumference at the base, tapering to 6'3" at the top. Many flint arrowheads were found in the vicinity prior to 1853. In 1899 the blasted remains of the other stones were visible in the foundation of the neighbouring field dyke.
A Jervise 1853; Name Book c 1861; F Cruikshank 1899." [from RCAHMS]
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