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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 776439

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NB10SW 5 centred on 1310 0397

(Location cited as NB 131 038). Whaling station, Bunaveneadar. All that survives of this once-extensive complex is a tapering brick chimney, foundation remains of structures, two small buildings, and the sloping ramp up which whales were hauled for processing.

J R Hume 1977.

Scheduled as 'Bunavoneadar, whaling station, Harris'.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 27 April 1992.

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