Drainie
Composite Slab Shrine (Early Medieval), Sarcophagus (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Composite Slab Shrine (Early Medieval), Sarcophagus (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kinneddar Church; Kinnedar Manse; Old Manse Of Kinneddar; Kinnedar; Drainie Manse; Drainie No. 18
Canmore ID 16490
Site Number NJ26NW 3.18
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16490
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 18, Kinneddar, Moray, shrine panel fragments
Measurements: H 0.66m, W 0.93m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1939.6)
Evidence for discovery: partly found in 1939 in Kinneddar graveyard.
Present condition: worn and battered.
Description
Four conjoining fragments survive of a panel, which was a component of a slab-built shrine. Face A is carved in relief, while face C is carved with two parallel grooves, each 100mm wide, to which the side panels would have been fitted. The panel is shaped to resemble an end-panel with flanking corner-blocks, and the base of the corner-blocks extend into tenons, indicating that the shrine was set into the floor of the early church. Within plain flatband borders, each corner-block bears a panel of diagonal key pattern, and the central panel between them is filled with another key pattern using pairs of double spirals and pellets.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references: Dransart 2001.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.17 223 696.
No. 18. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1939.6.
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.17).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
