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Large and smaller stones are arranged roughly north-south on the top of the ridge of Standingstone Rigg. Many stones are lying flat. The stone row extends onto the north slope of the hill NY8173 : North side of Standingstone Rigg and, in the other direction, south of the sheepfold into the valley below Townshield Bank. The row ends quite abruptly after a short distance but appears to continue as a short alignment of pits.

A small area of cord rig cultivation has been observed on air photographs just to the east of this location which may suggest that the row is part of a former field boundary.
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Cord rig appears as a series of low narrow ridges generally less than a metre apart, formed as the result of cultivation in the immediate pre-Roman Iron Age. In other situations, stone row alignments or avenues of standing stones are usually dated to the Neolithic period. Standingstone Rigg was used as a placename from the date of the first edition OS map, although the stones in the vicinity of the sheepfold are only shown on recent editions.