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Drainie5 Description of stone
Event ID 1023124
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1023124
Drainie 5, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.08m, W 0.16m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.3)
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 broken and carving very worn.
Description
A very finely carved fragment, this almost certainly belongs to the same monument as Drainie 24, which was probably a shrine panel. It is carved in relief with a double spiral springing from a roll-moulded border, and there is a pellet in the space below the spiral.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 144.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
