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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. 5
Canmore ID 16504
Site Number NJ26NW 3.05
NGR NJ 233 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16504
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 5, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.08m, W 0.16m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.3)
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 broken and carving very worn.
Description
A very finely carved fragment, this almost certainly belongs to the same monument as Drainie 24, which was probably a shrine panel. It is carved in relief with a double spiral springing from a roll-moulded border, and there is a pellet in the space below the spiral.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 144.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2017
Note
NJ26NW 3.05 233 696.
No. 5. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1855.1.3
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.05).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
