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Drainie 30 Description of stone
Event ID 1036939
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1036939
Drainie 30, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.12m, W 0.14m, D 0.07m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.158)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: all edges are broken and the carving is worn.
Description
This small fragment, perhaps from a cross-slab, is carved on one broad face with a combination of key pattern and a curvilinear motif.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
