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The stone near Gormyre is a solitary standing stone to the East of Torphichen and to the North-west of Cairnpapple, situated atop a low hillock on grazing land in an area saturated with historical remains. It is, like many others in the area, a relatively flat stone, with the edges aligned on an East-West axis.
As can be seen from the side shots of the Gormyre stone, its vertical alignment is now slightly off-axis, and presumably, it once stood perfectly vertically.
The height of this stone is similar to that of The Gogar Stane to the East, and several other local stones, but whether this carries any significance is unknown. It certainly seems to indicate a local style.
Perhaps this stone was originally a solitary monument, but, as with many such structures found in farm land, it is perhaps worth further investigation of the fact that there are numerous other large and fragmented boulders along the edge of the field in which it stands.
Being in the vicinity of Cairnpapple and, it appears to belong to a group of outlying stones which include the nearby Refuge Stane and that on Galabraes, but what the precise relation between these outlying stones, or their relation to Cairnpapple might be is unknown.
Intriguingly, the stone stands to the North-eastern point on a roughly circular mound, pictured above with Cairnpapple on the horizon (the monument there is just to the left of the communications mast). When standing on this mound, it appears to potentially consist of two separate hillocks, but from a distance they appear to constitute a single dimpled mound.