From a Blue Whale this famous archway is on the Isle of Lewis at Bragar, Hebrides, Western Isles, Scotland. SCO 6260
Bragar (Scottish Gaelic: Bràgar) is a crofting township or village on the West Side of the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, neighboured by Shawbost to the south and Arnol to the north. Bragar features a distinctive whale-bone arch as well as a school, post office, war memorial and a shore. The whale bones were taken from the carcass of a Blue whale which washed ashore near Bragar in 1920. Rory 'Dall' Morison, (Roderick Morison) an Clàrsair Dall, Harpist to the MacLeods of Dunvegan, was born in Bragar in 1656. He was the composer of Òran Mòr MhicLeòid. Bragar has an extremely old cemetery with a pre-medieval chapel (Teampall Eòin) the Temple of John the Baptist. The cemetery today is known as Cill Sgàire, (Zechariah's cemetery) - in recognition of a Zechariah MacAulay from Uig who fell in a skirmish between the MacAulays of Uig and the Morrisons of Ness. Bragar also has a ruined broch on Loch an Dun. In the early twentieth century many of its channels were usable but the broch was plundered for stones by the locals in the mid twentieth century and is no longer safe.
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Location: Bragar Whalebone Arch, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Western Isles, Highlands, Scotland.
Photo credit: © David Gowans / Alamy / Afripics
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