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Remains of a recumbent stone circle measuring circa 21m in diameter. It probably originally consisted of 12 stones (and suggested there may have been 14) of which only nine are now present. Five, including the recumbent and west flanker, are still standing. The fallen east flanker has four cup-marks on its horizontal upper surface, and there are 15 cup-marks on the stone next to this flanker. What looks like a deep cup-mark on the recumbent is probably the beginnings of a much latter bore-hole to hold a charge to break up the stone. The outlier is a magnificent white quartz monolith, 3.1m tall. The recumbent, weighing over 10 tons, is a white-grained granite. The fallen flanker has veins of quartz. Limited excavation in front of the stone facing the recumbent revealed a rough paving of boulders, themselves lying on top of larger rough stones and slabs. What this was is not clear. Field visit in April 1993 following ploughing adjacent to the site recorded a few fragments of white quartz but no worked pieces or other archaeological artefacts.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)