Drainie 4 Description of stone
Event ID 1023123
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1023123
Drainie 4, Kinneddar, Moray, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.23m, W 0.19m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.7)
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: trimmed to a rectangular block for re-use, but one edge is intact. The carving is weathered but clear.
Description
Carved in relief on one broad face, this is part of the top right corner of a cross-slab.
Date: ninth century
References: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 143-4.
Desk-based information copiled by A Ritchie 2017
