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Comet Stone

The Comet Stone including its satellites can be seen in a picture. The satellites are a little bit enhanced, by colouring their contours (white for the left one and black for the right one). It really seems that the satellites are broken off (although there is no prove of this in literature).
The azimuth of the Comet Stone seems to be: 317^o45' +/- 25' and the azimuth of the satelites seem to be: 46^o45' +/- 25' (both using magn-true north₁). They are almost perpendecular to each other.
The altitude of the horizon for the satellites is on the north side: 45' +/- 5' and for the Comet Stone on the west side: 30' +/- 5'.

One can see here the differance between what Thom presents (black) and what can be seen in practice (green). The azimuth directions in the picture are only for general direction, see above for more accurate figures.

No stone wall (Burl, 1988) has been found (due to coverage by grass and/or no probing has been done).

Some references in literature:

Burl, A., 1988 (using picture, no accuracy available)
Comet Stone: some 350^o
satellites: some 70^o
Thom, A., 1978
Comet stone: 314 ^o +/- 30'

In the picture of this book, it looks like the Comet Stone is some 322^o, but the text is talking about 134 + 180^o +/- 30', so the picture is assumed wrong for determining the azimuth of the Comet Stone.
satellites: 45^o +/- 1^o (using the picture)
Frazer, J., 1925
Comet Stone: 306^o (alignment on Watch Stone)
satellites: 43^o 30'

So Burl is certainly wrong.

Beside the above stone alignments, there is another thing that can be seen on the Comet Stone itself. There are groves (some 5 cm wide and 2 cm deep) on the northern and southern face of it. The angle is some 44^o +/- 1^o with regard to the horizontal plane.