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Elgin, 1 High Street, Museum
Museum (19th Century)
Site Name Elgin, 1 High Street, Museum
Classification Museum (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Elgin Museum And Museum Hall
Canmore ID 16595
Site Number NJ26SW 101
NGR NJ 21902 62910
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/16595
- Council Moray
- Parish Elgin
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie
Drainie parish on the coast of Moray contains the site of the old church of Kinneddar (Canmore 16470), and confusingly both names have been used to denote the carved stones from the site of the old church. In early medieval times the church was part of a monastery, which lay beside an inland loch (later drained). There are 32 carved fragments in this important collection housed mostly in the Elgin Museum (Canmore 16595), and they represent some ten cross-slabs, perhaps three free-standing crosses and, most remarkably, fragments of eight or more panels from composite stone shrine-chests.
Primary reference: ECMS pt 3, 124, 142-49, 507-8.
A Ritchie 2019
Note
NJ26SW 101.00 21902 62910
Elgin Museum houses the early medieval sculptured stones recovered from Drainie (NJ26NW 3).
