[1][2] The ring was completely destroyed around 1830 by a tenant farmer, who was then compelled to rebuild it by the owner of the land (and Strichen House) Thomas Alexander Fraser.

[1] The circle was rebuilt, but in the wrong place, within a ring bank where an Iron Age timber building had stood.

[1] Alexander Thom produced a plan of the circle with its six stones in 1956; the ring had become a tea garden used by tuberculosis sufferers recovering at Strichen House (which subsequently closed down in 1958).

[3] It was determined that whilst the recumbent stood in the right place, the rest of the circle was in the wrong position.

[1] The volunteer labourers found that the most efficient way to move the orthostats was to slide them on logs with dry straw underneath.