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Drainie 24 Description of stone
Event ID 1036716
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036716
Drainie 24, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.27m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.152)
Evidence for discovery: found in the old kirkyard of Kinneddar in 1978.
Present condition: all edges are broken and the carving is very worn.
Description
This fragment is part of a finely carved monument, probably a shrine panel, and Drainie 5 is likely to be part of the same slab. Within a plain border is a roll moulding, created partly by incision and partly by relief carving, from which spring two double spirals with diagonal glides and pellets in the interstices.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
