Canmore Site 16488: DRAINIE - DRAINIE - CROSS SLAB (EARLY MEDIEVAL)
Description
Site Name | DRAINIE |
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Other Name(s) | KINNEDDAR CHURCH, DRAINIE NO. 15 |
Site Number | NJ26NW 3.15 |
Broad Class | MONUMENT (BY FORM), RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY |
Site Type(s) | CROSS SLAB (EARLY MEDIEVAL) |
NGR | NJ 223 696 |
Local Authority | MORAY |
Parish | DRAINIE |
Record created | 1988-02-29 |
Last updated | 2004-10-11 |
Archaeology Notes
NJ26NW 3.15 223 696.
Drainie No.15 is a fragment of a cross-slab of greyish sandstone, quadrangular in shape, with two sides broken away, and measuring about 1 foot square, and 2 1/2 inches in thickness. It is sculptured in relief on one face with a cross composed of a square centre, narrow arms and square terminals, ornamented by irregular key patterns. One panel of the background is decorated with a figure-of-eight knot, interlaced with a circle.
The stone was discovered in digging a grave in the old churchyard of Kinneddar in the summer of 1900, and preserved in Elgin Museum.
Allen and Anderson 1903, 507-8.
No. 15. Elgin Museum, Acc. No. 1978.160
Now in Elgin Museum (see NJ26SW 101.15).
(Undated) information in NMRS.
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