[Marginal] About 1/2 mile north of Black Pool and 1/2 mile west of Debdon farmhouse, at 700 feet above sea level, in a slack, is a stone circle of stones enclosing a burial place, 16ft in diameter. The stone slabs vary in height up to 3ft 7ins and 4ft 10ins. The burial was opened by Dr Greenwell some years ago. At that time there were eight standing stones, there are now six standing and two fallen. (1)

Two cairns out of a group of three situated close together in a hollow between the hills on Cartington Fell were excavated by Greenwell.
206. A cairn 34 ft in diameter and 3 ft high with a central cist containing a fragment of human bone and charcoal. A cremation burial was also found about 1-1/2 ft south of the cist.
207. The second cairn had a circle of eight stones around its base with an internal diameter of 14-1/2 ft. The greater part of the stony mound had been removed many years ago but without disturbance to the central grave which contained a deposit of cremated bones and
charcoal. (2)

[Area NU 053050 A standing stone (NU 00 SE 57) is described as being 'about 140yds west by south of a small circle of upended stones in circumference of excavated burial mound']. (3)

Stone circle on Cartington Moor. Scheduled as Ancient Monument. County No 103. (4)

NU 054051 Area as in authority 3 falls in a slack among the hills as described by authorities 1 and 2. An extensive perambulation revealed no trace of either cairns or a circle of stones. (5)

'Cartington stone circle, 1 mile 100 yards east of Cartington Castle. Map reference: 71/056046'. (6)

The first of the cairns opened by Greenwell is at NU 05570431. It is some 11m in diameter and 1.5m high, with the centre almost entirely removed. There is no trace of a cist.
The other, at NU 05600456, is a fine cairn circle of six upright stones as described by Brewis, Dixon and Greenwell, with the residue of the infilling on the south east side (see enlarged sketch and photograph). Both surveyed at 1:2500. No third cairn to complete the group could be located. (7)

The turf-covered remains of two robbed cairns ('A' and 'B') basically as described.
'A' at NU 0555 0431 (Greenwell's No 206) is about 10.8m in diameter and 1.3m maximum height. An area about 4m in diameter in the north east has been extensively robbed, almost to ground level, but there is no trace of a cist. 'B' at NU 0561 0449 (Greenwell's No 207) is almost
certainly a robbed cairn now visible as a circle of eight near-vertical stones, backed by a 'bank' of earth and stones 1.5m to 3m wide and 0.7m high. There is a slight tendency for the upright stones to lean outwards suggesting that the central areas was originally infilled and they (the upright stones) were backed by the 'bank' material, which is not just debris from robbing. On the other hand, it may be a 'kerb cairn' from which the core material has been removed.
The cairn averages about 4.6m in diameter between the centres of the upright stones and about 8.2m overall. A near central depression is possibly the site of the cremation. Surveyed at 1:10,000. There is no trace of a third cairn or any feature which might have been taken for one. (8)

NU 056046 Cartington stone circle. (9)

NU 0561 0449. Cairn 500m W of Debdon Farm. Scheduled RSM No 20899. The monument survives as a circle of eight stones measuring 4.6m in diameter, backed by a bank of earth up to 3m wide and surviving to a height of 0.7m. The area within the circle is now empty but was originally filled with cairn material which has subsequently been removed. The overall diameter of the cairn is 8.5m. There are no traces of a surrounding ditch. 'B' above. (10)

NU 0555 0431. Cairn 600m WSW of Debdon Farm. Scheduled RSM No 20900. The heather covered cairn has a diameter of 11m and height of 1.3m. Greenwell's excavations left a hole 4m in diameter in the centre of the mound; he uncovered a central stone cist containing fragments
of human bone and charcoal; a second cremation burial was found to the S of the cist. 'A' above. (11)