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Drainie carved stones Description of stones
Event ID 1085679
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1085679
Drainie
Drainie parish on the coast of Moray contains the site of the old church of Kinneddar (Canmore 16470), and confusingly both names have been used to denote the carved stones from the site of the old church. In early medieval times the church was part of a monastery, which lay beside an inland loch (later drained). There are 32 carved fragments in this important collection housed mostly in the Elgin Museum (Canmore 16595), and they represent some ten cross-slabs, perhaps three free-standing crosses and, most remarkably, fragments of eight or more panels from composite stone shrine-chests.
Primary reference: ECMS pt 3, 124, 142-49, 507-8.
A Ritchie 2019
