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Drainie
Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Pictish Symbol Stone (Pictish)
Alternative Name(s) Kinnedar Manse; Old Manse Of Kinneddar; Kinnedar; Drainie Manse; Drainie No. 1
Canmore ID 16482
Site Number NJ26NW 3.01
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16482
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 1, Kinneddar, Moray, Pictish symbol stone fragment
Measurements: H 0.75m, W 0.63m, D 0.10m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 2224 6960
Present location: lost.
Evidence for discovery: found when Kinneddar Manse was demolished in 1855 and ‘mutilated a squared by the masons’, before it was recognised as part of a symbol stone and taken to Elgin Museum. It was lost by 1930.The old manse stood close to the graveyard and the site of Kinneddar old parish church and early medieval foundation, then located beside a sea loch.
Present condition: all edges had been trimmed and the carving was very worn.
Description
This fragment was incised with a large crescent and V-rod. Within the crescent were double spirals.
Date: seventh century
References: Stuart 1856, pl 129; ECMS pt 3, 124; Fraser 2008, no 259.1.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Field Visit (27 November 1962)
No. 1. This stone was in Elgin Museum (NJ 2191 6290) but is now lost.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 27 November 1962.
Reference (1997)
Class I symbol stone (lost) bearing part of a crescent and V-rod.
A Mack 1997.
