Sunhoney is a stone circle of the recumbent type, which is common in the Grampian region, in particular at the River Dee.

Sunhoney is situated about 2 km west of Echt in Aberdeenshire, near to the Cullerlie and Midmar stone circles.

The identifying feature is that the largest stone (the recumbent) is always laid horizontally, with its long axis generally aligned with the perimeter of the ring between the south and southwest.

Recumbent stone circles generally enclosed a low ring cairn, though over the millennia these have often disappeared.

[2] They may have been a development from the Clava cairns found nearby in Inverness-shire and axial stone circles may have followed the design.