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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. 20
Canmore ID 16494
Site Number NJ26NW 3.20
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16494
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 20, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.18m, W 0.11m, D 0.02m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.123)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: broken edges but the carving is in good condition.
Description
A small thin fragment, this stone is nonetheless carved on one broad face in deep and highly defined relief with part of a scene involving a clawed paw intertwined with two arcs of a coiled motif, perhaps a tail. The surface beneath this relief panel bears three incised horizontal lines. The fragment is so thin that it is more likely to have been part of a panel than a cross-slab.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
Primary references:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018.
Note
NJ26NW 3.20 223 696.
No. 20. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.123
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.19).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
