Protection works are needed at the downstream of hydraulic structures for safety consideration. They are designed primarily based on the shapes and sizes of scour holes. Therefore, it is the fundamental and important research to find the relationships among the characteristic factors of scour holes. In this study, the scouring phenomena of free overfall flow are conducted with sandy soils as the channel bed of the weir's downstreams. Two types of sandy soils are used. They are of uniform size and graded distribution. The experimental observations will be compared with the theoretical results. It is indicated that all the shape factors, C_b, C_s and C_i are functional with the drop number N_d and the relative diameter G. Meanwhile, it's verified the characteristic coefficients of the shape factors, C_(sb)(=C_s-C_b) and C_(is)(=C_i-C_s) are both greater than one, and the volume factor of the stable scour bole, A. is greater than II/2. The results also show that the ratio of the length of the stable scour hole, L_i - L_b to the maximum scour depth, y_s is in the range of 2.5 to 5.0.