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. 25
Canmore ID 16496
Site Number NJ26NW 3.25
NGR NJ 233 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16496
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 25, Kinneddar, Moray, cross-slab fragment
Measurements: H 0.15m, W 0.19m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.153)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: one edge is original but battered and the others are broken; the carving is very worn.
Description
This fragment conjoins Drainie 27 as part of one side-edge of a cross-slab, with a plain flat-band border and diagonal key-pattern.
Date range: eighth or ninth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.25 233 696.
No. 25. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.153.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
