[3] It stands on a gentle hill slope about 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Inverurie and consists of a ring of nine stones, eight of which are grey granite and one red jasper.

The circle is particularly notable for its builders' use of polychromy in the stones, with the reddish ones situated on the SSW side and the grey ones opposite.

In 1884, it attracted the attention of the archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, and five years later his assistants William Tomkin and Claude Gray visited the site to measure, document, and photograph it in order to build a scale model (which is now part of the collection of The Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire).

[7] In 1900, Coles found the circle "in an excellent state of preservation", protected from damage by cattle and without shrubbery growing around.

[8] The circle became badly overgrown in the first quarter of the 20th century; George Browne recorded that when he visited in 1920 it was "filled with a forest of whin bushes as high as our heads".