The full height statue depicts the Scottish hero, William Wallace, with flowing, wind-blown hair. There is a cord around his neck, and under his right arm he holds what appears to be a horn. He is dressed in chain mail and surcoat with a large two-handed sword held in his right hand pointing diagonally towards the ground. He gestures with his left hand, possibly towards the city's harbour, where his biographer 'Blind Harry' recounted that Wallace burned English ships, (though there is actually no evidence that Wallace ever came to Aberdeen). The plinth is a substantial, rough-hewn asymmetric block of squared pink granite stones, which gives the appearance that Wallace is standing on ramparts.