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Drainie 29 Description of stone
Event ID 1036938
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036938
Drainie 29, Kinneddar, Moray, shrine panel fragment
Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0.18m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.157)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: broken, damage to the top edge, carving very worn.
Description
This fragment comes from the top of a hybrid post-and-panel, or end-panel of a shrine. The carving, in deeply cut incision, is confined to face A and consists of a double roll-moulded frame, within which there is a double spiral. The narrow faces are plain, but face C displays part of a vertical groove, 0.06m wide, to take a side-panel.
Date: eighth century.
References
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
