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Drainie 25 Description of stone
Event ID 1036934
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036934
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
