Almost unique (there is one other similar shaped setting), the stones of this "circle" stand in a horseshoe or truncated oval arrangement with the long edges of the stones running across the line of the setting rather than along it.
There were once 54 stones in the setting, but now there are 34. The horseshoe opens to the south-southeast and is about 70 metres long and 25 metres wide. Most of the stones are around one metre tall, but with taller stones at the southern opening standing two metres tall.
1/23 Looking north along the eastern line with Loch Stemster behind.
2/23 One of the terminal stones at the southern end of the allignment, just as the sun rises.
3/23 The tall terminal stones of the western line, looking southeast.
4/23 The eastern line is in the foreground. Five stones of the western line can be seen in the distance between the two nearest stones.
5/23 The eastern line is in the foreground, with the northern arc and the western line visible.
6/23 At the northern end of the eastern line.
7/23 One of the stones of the eastern line at dawn.
8/23 Looking southeast along the eastern line. A nearby chambered cairn is just visible at the very left of the picture, halfway up.
9/23 Another view to the northwest along the eastern line.
10/23 Where the eastern line arcs around at the northern end. Looking to the southeast.
11/23 The north end of the eastern line, looking southeast.
12/23 The north arc and north end of the western line.
13/23 The north arc and north end of the western line.
14/23 The north arc and north end of the western line, looking southwest.
15/23 Some stones are missing after splitting apart, as weathering is causing this stone to split.
16/23 The northern arc.
17/23 Looking southeast to the nearby chambered cairn.
18/23 Looking south along the whole length of the setting.
19/23 The stones of the west line.
20/23 The northern arc.
21/23 The western line, looking north west.
22/23 Stones of the western line, looking east.
23/23 A stone of the western line, looking west.
Nearby Sites
6km Guidebest Stone Circle; Cairns
7km Camster Stone Row Stone Rows; Standing Stones
7km Grey Cairns of Camster - Long Cairn Chambered Long Cairn
7km Grey Cairns of Camster - Round Cairn Chambered Cairn
8km Lower Camster Standing Stones
11km Hill O' Many Stanes Stone Rows; Standing Stones
12km Cairn of Get Chambered Cairn
12km South Yarrows Broch Broch
(NB: All distances are as-the-crow-flies. Lochs, mountains and beautiful winding roads will make it further. Sometimes much further.)