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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. 23
Canmore ID 16492
Site Number NJ26NW 3.23
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16492
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 23, Kinneddar, Moray, shrine-panel fragment
Measurements: H 0.22m, W 0.25m, D 0.06m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.150)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: one edge is intact and the others broken; the carving is worn.
Description
This fragment appears to come from the left-hand edge of a shrine panel rather than a cross-slab, and it could be part of the same monument as Drainie 26, carved in relief on one broad face with linked pairs of Stafford knots, using median-incised cord and pellets in the interstices, in a vertical panel bordered by plain mouldings. To the right of this panel is part of another filled with curvilinear interlace.
Date range: eighth century.
Primary references:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.23 223 696.
No. 23. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.150
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.22).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
