Drainie 27 Description of stone

Event ID 1036936

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

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Early Medieval Carved Stones Project

Drainie 27, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment

Measurements: H 0.26m, W 0.20m, D 0.09m

Stone type: sandstone

Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960

Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.155)

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

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

Description

This fragment conjoins Drainie 26 as part of one side-edge of a cross-slab, with a plain flat-band border and diagonal key-pattern.

Date: eighth or ninth century.

References:

Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018