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. 2
Canmore ID 16493
Site Number NJ26NW 3.02
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16493
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 2, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.28m, W 0.19m, D 0.08m
Stone type: yellow sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.10).
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, possibly trimmed for re-use, but the surviving carving is in good condition.
Description
This fragment is carved in relief with diagonal spiral work.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 142-3.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Note
NJ26NW 3.02 223 696
No. 2. Elgin Museum Accession no. 1855.1.10
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.02).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
