Drainie 25 Description of stone

Event ID 1036934

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Drainie 25, Kinneddar, Moray, cross-slab fragment

Measurements: H 0.15m, W 0.19m, D 0.09m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960

Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.153)

Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.

Present condition: one edge is original but battered and the others are broken; the carving is very worn.

Description

This fragment conjoins Drainie 27 as part of one side-edge of a cross-slab, with a plain flat-band border and diagonal key-pattern.

Date range: eighth or ninth century.

References:

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018