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Drainie 10 Description of stone
Event ID 1036642
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036642
Drainie 10, Kinneddar, Moray, cross-shaft fragment
Measurements: H 0.28m, W 0.28m, D 0.13m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.8)
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: the top and bottom edges are broken, the sides are damaged and one of the broad faces has been trimmed flat. The carving on the other three faces is worn.
Description
This fragment is part of a slender cross-shaft, which was originally carved in relief on all four faces and has a slight upwards taper. It has wide flat-band mouldings at the edges. Face A bears part of an interlace pattern consisting of a double twist and double rings, carried out in cords with a median line. Face B has a four-cord plait, again using cords with a median line. From the traces surviving on face C, it appears to have had circular interlace pattern similar to that on face A. Narrow face D bears key pattern.
Date range: ninth century
Primary references: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 146-7.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
