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. 24
Canmore ID 16491
Site Number NJ26NW 3.24
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16491
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 24, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.30m, W 0.27m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.152)
Evidence for discovery: found in the old kirkyard of Kinneddar in 1978.
Present condition: all edges are broken and the carving is very worn.
Description
This fragment is part of a finely carved monument, probably a shrine panel, and Drainie 5 is likely to be part of the same slab. Within a plain border is a roll moulding, created partly by incision and partly by relief carving, from which spring two double spirals with diagonal glides and pellets in the interstices.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.24 223 696.
No. 24. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.152
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.23).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
