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Drainie
Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Carved Stone (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kinneddar Church; Kinnedar Manse; Old Manse Of Kinneddar; Kinnedar; Drainie Manse; Drainie No. 16
Canmore ID 16489
Site Number NJ26NW 3.16
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16489
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 16, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.46m, W 0.46m, D 0.18m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.14)
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: all edges are broken and the carving is very weathered.
Description
One broad face of this fragment is carved in high relief with part of a scene showing David rending the jaws of the lion. What survives is the torso of a robed figure and most of a lion with its jaws pulled wide apart, together with the hind quarters of a small animal to the right of David’s left arm, which is likely to be a lamb. Henderson and Henderson regard the fragment as too thick to be a part of a shrine panel, and they suggest that it may have come from a recumbent monument.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references: Stuart 1856, pl 130; Henderson 1998, 130-1; Dransart 2001; Henderson & Henderson 2004, 203.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.16 223 696.
No. 16. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1855.1.14
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.15).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
