Drainie 15 Description of stone
Event ID 1036707
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036707
Drainie 15, Kinneddar, Moray, cross-slab fragments
Measurements: H 0.31m, W 0.31m, D 0.06m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.160)
Evidence for discovery: found in 1900 in the old kirkyard at Kinneddar and presented to Elgin Museum.
Present condition: two conjoining fragments, on both of which the carving is very worn. Parts of the top and left-hand edges survive.
Description
These two fragments form part of the top left-hand portion of a cross-slab, carved in relief on one broad face. The workmanship is relatively poor compared to most of the Drainie collection. There is a plain flat-band border, within which is a cross outlined by roll mouldings, with square centre and square terminals to the two surviving arms. Centre and arms are filled with diagonal key pattern. An interlace knot fills the space to the left of the upper arm, and traces of similar ornament survive, very worn, between the other arms and shaft.
Date range: ninth or tenth century
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 507.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
