Location – Gordon, Grampian. Near Inverurie. The site is in state care, and is located 3km west of Inverurie on a minor road. It is signposted from the roundabout on Inverurie's western bypass (A96).

Best time of year to visit: Lunar major standstill.

Description - This circle, lying within the shadow of Ben Achie, is 19.5 m (64 ft) in diameter, comprises nine stones set in a low bank, a huge 3.8 m (12 ft 6 in) recumbent and two flankers. In addition, in front of the recumbent are two huge blocks of stone delineating an area, perhaps for ceremonial purposes.
    The stones in the circle are all of pink porphyry apart from the one next to the east flanker, which is of red jasper. These stones are graded in height decreasing from the 2.25 m (7 ft 4 in) flankers to the stones opposite the recumbent which are 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) high. The flankers are grey granite, and the recumbent is red granite from near Ben Achie.
    Some of the stones have been shaped: for example, the recumbent's outer face has been worked smooth. As with other stone circles, there is a diamond-shaped stone and a waisted, rectangular stone, similar to those found at The Hurlers and Avebury (both in England).
    As the site has not been excavated, it is not known whether there is a central cairn, but an early reference to a cist, and the rise in the profile of the interior, suggests that there may have been.

This is an impressive and well preserved recumbent stone circle. It is nearly 20 metres in diameter, and the stones are set out as a true circle.

It consists of nine stones, graded in size with the largest being closest to the large granite recumbent stone and its flankers, which are placed in the south-south-west. This grading is common to all recumbent stone circles. The flankers are well over 2 metres tall, and the recumbent is nearly four metres long and carefully shaped. Two small blocks of stone which lie against the inside face of the recumbent stone may have served to define the most sacred area inside the circle.

The stones of the circle are set into a bank, at least part of which has probably been added in modern times. Only faint traces of an internal ring cairn survive.

The band of horizon covered by the width of the recumbent stone as seen from the centre of the circle is 185.2° to 205.8°. The actual horizon is now blocked by a plantation of young conifers, with the lowest visible horizon being 1.7° at the left and 3.9° at the right. These values give a band of declinations from -31.2° to -25.5°. If the true horizon values, as is more likely, are about 0.5° in both cases, then the declination range indicated by the recumbent is from -32.1° to -28.6°.

This means that the setting southern full moon at the major standstill will set over the recumbent stone.