Ion implanted GaAs samples have been chemically etched to form a small angle beveled surface. First order Raman spectroscopy has been performed along the bevel of as-implanted samples bombarded with 2.3 MeV Be and 10.9 MeV Se ions. The phonon confinement interpretation [H. Richter et al., Solid State Commun. 39 (1981) 625] has been employed to fit the spectra and obtain the damage distributions. Comparisons with X-ray diffraction (XRD) and RBS-channeling (RBS) measurements show good agreement with regard to the basic shape and depth of the profiles. The Be-implanted sample shows a damaged layer at a depth of 2.5 to 4 mum while the Se implant shows a much wider damaged layer at a depth between 1 and 3.5 mum.