Drainie 2 Description of stone
Event ID 1023121
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1023121
Drainie 2, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.28m, W 0.19m, D 0.08m
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.10).
Evidence for discovery: found in or prior to 1855; according to Stuart (1856, 40), ‘most of the other fragments [ ie nos 2-13] were found in old dykes about the Manse, and a few were dug up in the old churchyard’. The old manse stood close to the graveyard and the site of Kinneddar old parish church and early medieval foundation, then located beside a sea loch.
Present condition: all edges are broken, possibly trimmed for re-use, but the surviving carving is in good condition.
Description
This fragment is carved in relief with diagonal spiral work.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 142-3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
