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Drainie
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kinneddar Church; Kinnedar Manse; Old Manse Of Kinneddar; Kinnedar; Drainie Manse; Drainie No. 12
Canmore ID 16485
Site Number NJ26NW 3.12
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16485
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 12, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.38m, W 0.33m, D 0.33m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.9)
Evidence for discovery: found in or prior to 1855; according to Stuart (1856, 40), ‘most of
the other fragments [ ie nos 2-13] were found in old dykes about the Manse, and a few were dug up in the old churchyard’. 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: the one surviving edge is damaged and the carving is very worn.
Description
One broad face of this fragment is carved in relief with part of a vertical panel of diagonal key pattern, with a plain flat-band border.
Date range: eighth or ninth century
Primary references: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 148.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.12 223 696.
No. 12. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1855.1.9
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.12).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
