This recumbent stone circle is situated at the top of a small hill about south of Tarland in Aberdeenshire. There is a visitors' car park from where it is a short uphill walk to the monument. The hill is of granite, barely covered by thin soil. The area, called the Howe of Cromar, is surrounded by hills and mountains, most notably Lochnagar about to the southwest, and Morven and Clachnaben. The circle is across with the recumbent stone and its adjacent flankers looking southwest. The recumbent is a granite block (length x thickness x height) and weighing . The granite is intruded with quartz so as a whole this massive stone has a lighter colour than its attendant stones. It has two cup marks, one on its top and the other on its outer face. Depending on how it is measured, the orientation of the recumbent stone, looking out of the circle, is 236°-240° (southwest by west).