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Recumbent stone circle, originally consisting of twelve stones seen in 1842 of which two were fallen, four broken and five erect. It was also noted at this time that there was a quantity of loose stones near the middle of the circle with a slab of stone over a small cist. Now no trace of the four broken stones. Other stones stand round the perimeter of an overgrown stony platform in the centre of which the 'cist' slab still survives. The pit below the slab is choked with stones. Three small trenches were opened by Richard Bradley in 2001 to assess the structural sequence of the monument and to compare it with the Tomnavarie excavations. Excavations revealed that initially, a low cairn or platform of rubble was constructed. The platform was open at the centre and revetted on the exterior by a buttress of rubble, and by a bank of massive boulders in the interior. The recumbent stone circle was added later (two of the sockets for the monoliths cut the cairn structure). Few artefacts were recovered and these consisted of worked flints and some worked and unworked quartz.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)