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Drainie 26 Description of stone
Event ID 1036935
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036935
Drainie 26, Kinneddar, Moray, shrine panel fragment
Measurements: H 0.16m, W 0.24m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.154)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar.
Present condition: broken and worn.
Description
This fragment conjoins Drainie 28 and represents the top of the right-hand side of a shrine panel of the type that combines corner posts and panel, and it may be part of the same monument as Drainie 23. It is carved in relief but are very worn. The ‘post’ has a roll-moulded border around a vertical panel of Stafford knots created in median-incised cords.
Date: eighth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
