Drainie
Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Site Name Drainie
Classification Cross Slab (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kinneddar Church; Drainie No. 29
Canmore ID 288509
Site Number NJ26NW 3.29
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/288509
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 29, Kinneddar, Moray, shrine panel fragment
Measurements: H 0.19m, W 0.18m, D 0.08m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.157)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar sometime after 1936.
Present condition: broken, damage to the top edge, carving very worn.
Description
This fragment comes from the top of a hybrid post-and-panel, or end-panel of a shrine. The carving, in deeply cut incision, is confined to face A and consists of a double roll-moulded frame, within which there is a double spiral. The narrow faces are plain, but face C displays part of a vertical groove, 0.06m wide, to take a side-panel.
Date: eighth century.
References
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
NJ26NW 3.29 223 696
No. 29. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.157
