All three were described by Caleb George Cash, an honorary fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in 1906.
Its condition, as described by Cash in 1906, is ruinous; it could hardly be recognized as anything other than "a heap of stones cleared by the farmer from his fields".
[3] In 1877 there were still seven stones standing in the centre; when Aubrey Burl detailed the cairn in 2005, there were only five left, one of which has fallen.
of the Aviemore railway station, some 350 yards east of the road, in an area of uneven moorland[1] that was once covered in pine trees.
The Highland Railway's line to Carr Bridge runs nearby (now the preserved Strathspey Railway), only a few yards from the outer circle on the west side; equally close on the east side runs an old path from Aviemore to Boat of Garten.