Monument record 13461 - LEWIS, BRAGAR, WHALEBONE ARCH
Summary
Location
Grid reference | NB 2916 4772 (point) |
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Map sheet | NB24NE |
Island | Lewis |
Parish | BARVAS, Western Isles |
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Full Description
site 9: Large whalebone arch (Blue Whale, lower jaw bone), erected as a gateway to a private house; symbolic of an industry in which local men were involved, though this speciment was from a beached whale with a harpoon embedded in its back. Mounded by metal brackets on pair substantial rubble-built piers and braced at the top with a harpoon slung underneath. Site visited during walkover survey, the jaw bones underwent extnesive restoration in 2000, and as a result they have been encased in fibreglass to protect them from the elements.
Shaw 2007, 1-17
Claire Shaw, Jacobs, 2007, Scottish Water: Bragar Mains Water Replacement, DBA and walkover survey (Unpublished document). SWE41154.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SWE41154 Unpublished document: Claire Shaw, Jacobs. 2007. Scottish Water: Bragar Mains Water Replacement, DBA and walkover survey.
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Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
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Record last edited
Jul 29 2005 12:00AM