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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. 27
Canmore ID 295974
Site Number NJ26NW 3.27
NGR NJ 223 696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/295974
- Council Moray
- Parish Drainie
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Moray
- Former County Morayshire
Drainie 27, Kinneddar, Moray, carved fragment
Measurements: H 0.26m, W 0.20m, D 0.09m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NJ c 2230 6960
Present location: Elgin Museum (1978.155)
Evidence for discovery: found in or near the old graveyard at Kinneddar.
Present condition: one edge is original but battered and the others are broken; the carving is very worn.
Description
This fragment conjoins Drainie 26 as part of one side-edge of a cross-slab, with a plain flat-band border and diagonal key-pattern.
Date: eighth or ninth century.
References:
Desk-based information compiled by A Ritchie 2018
NJ26NW 3.27 223 696
No.27 Elgin Museum, Acc. No.1978.155.
