Canmore Site 16488: DRAINIE - DRAINIE - CROSS SLAB (EARLY MEDIEVAL)


Description

Site NameDRAINIE
Other Name(s)KINNEDDAR CHURCH, DRAINIE NO. 15
Site NumberNJ26NW 3.15
Broad ClassMONUMENT (BY FORM), RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY
Site Type(s)CROSS SLAB (EARLY MEDIEVAL)
NGRNJ 223 696
Local AuthorityMORAY
ParishDRAINIE
Record created1988-02-29
Last updated2004-10-11

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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