Drainie
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kinneddar Church; Drainie No. 14
Canmore ID 16487
Site Number NJ26NW 3.14
NGR NJ 2227 6960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16487
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 14, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.45m, W 0.27m, D 0.04m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum, on loan from National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh (X.IB. 118)
Evidence for discovery: found in the old kirkyard of Kinneddar in 1884 and presented to the museum in Edinburgh.
Present condition: broken top and bottom and with edge damage.
Description
The function of this fragment is hard to assess. It is part of a slender and thin slab, perhaps more suited to a panel than a cross-slab. It is carved in relief on one broad face with a double panel of diagonal key pattern, bordered by flat-band mouldings.
Date range: eighth or ninth century
Primary references: ECMS pt 3, 148-9.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
NJ26NW 3.14 223 696.
A portion of a sculptured slab of reddish sandstone, 17ins by 10ins, bearing on one side two contiguous rows of incised diagonal fretwork, from Drainie (parish name centred NJ 22 68) was donated to RMS (NMAS) in 1885.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1885.
No. 14. The fragmentary remains of a Class 3 slab of sandstone, measuring 0.45m x 0.27m x 0.04m, and bearing 2 panels of key pattern in incised lines. Found in the old churchyard 1884. Presented to the NMAS by the Rev Alexander Gordon, 1885. Now in RMS Acc. No. IB.118.
Information from R Jones 1980.
