Monument record 13461 - LEWIS, BRAGAR, WHALEBONE ARCH

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Claire Shaw, Jacobs, 2007, Scottish Water: Bragar Mains Water Replacement, DBA and walkover survey (Unpublished document).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.