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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. 7
Canmore ID 16506
Site Number NJ26NW 3.07
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16506
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 7, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.10m, W 0.13m, D 0.05m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 223 696
Present location: Elgin Museum (1855.1.5)
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: broken top and bottom, very worn and face C is defaced.
Description
There is a slight taper to this fragment, which may come from a very slender cross-shaft such as would have supported the cross-head Drainie 9. Both broad faces have plain edge mouldings, and face A bears key pattern. Face C is severely defaced but there are hints of another key pattern.
Date range: eighth or ninth century
Primary references: Stuart 1856, pl 130; ECMS pt 3, 145.
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
Note
NJ26NW 3.07 223 696.
No. 7. Museum Acc. No. 1855.1.5
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.07).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
