Drainie 14 Description of stone
Event ID 1036706
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036706
Drainie 14, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.45m, W 0.27m, D 0.04m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum, on loan from National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB. 118)
Evidence for discovery: found in the old kirkyard of Kinneddar in 1884 and presented to the museum in Edinburgh.
Present condition: broken top and bottom and with edge damage.
Description
The function of this fragment is hard to assess. It is part of a slender and thin slab, perhaps more suited to a panel than a cross-slab. It is carved in relief on one broad face with a double panel of diagonal key pattern, bordered by flat-band mouldings.
Date range: eighth or ninth century
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 148-9.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
