Elgin Museum Collection Highlight: Kinneddar Pictish Stone

Janet Trythall, Vice-President of The Moray Society and volunteer at Elgin Museum, talks about her favourite object from the Museum's collection – a Pictish stone from Kinneddar (Drainie) (ELGNM: 2009.11) classified as Class II (by the Romilly & Allen classification scheme). The stone is sandstone, carved on one face with a cross. The cross is decorated with an ornamented central boss, and traces of other ornamentation can be seen on the arms. In the panels surrounding the cross are more “traditional” Pictish symbols: (clockwise from bottom left) a comb symbol, a possible mirror, and fragments of key patterning.
In 1953, the ruins of the first Drainie Church were cleared to make way for a new RAF runway. The removed stones were deposited in the grounds of Gordonstoun School. This particular stone was single out as being of importance in 1965. It was loaned to Elgin Museum in 1994 and formally donated to the Museum in 2009.
This film was made possible thanks to the support of the Heritage Lottery Fund, and was produced as part of Elgin Museum's Year of History, Heritage & Archaeology 2017 programme of events.

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