By Associated Press - Wednesday, April 18, 2018

EASTHAM, Mass. (AP) - A strange archway built from the jawbone of a finback whale has been taken down from outside a historic home on Cape Cod.

The Cape Cod Times reports a jawbone archway was removed from the Captain Edward Penniman House on the Cape Cod National Seashore this week because it is deteriorated and posed a danger to the public.

Park officials say the bone was cracked and infested by insects and had become a home to nesting birds. Preservationists will determine whether the gate should be replaced with another jawbone or a man-made replica.

Penniman was a famed whaler who built the house in Eastham upon retiring in 1868. The jawbone was the third to be installed as an archway for the property.

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Information from: Cape Cod (Mass.) Times, http://www.capecodtimes.com

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