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Mortsafes at a church yard in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland.
A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance and used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools of anatomy since the early 18th century. This was due to the necessity for medical students to learn anatomy by attending dissections of human subjects, which was frustrated by the very limited allowance of dead bodies – for example the corpses of executed criminals – granted by the government, which controlled the supply.[1]
^Holder, Geoff (2010). Scottish Bodysnatchers. Stroud : The History Press. ISBN 978-0-7524-5603-4
A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance and used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools...
rich placed their dead in secure coffins, and physical barriers such as mortsafes and heavy stone slabs made extraction of corpses more difficult. Body...
Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland (1838).[citation needed] A mortsafe or mort safe was an iron coffin or framework which helped to protect a...
frequently, or the graves were protected by a framework of iron bars called mortsafes, well-preserved examples of which may still be seen in Greyfriars churchyard...
men". Measures to ensure graves were left undisturbed—such as the use of mortsafes—exacerbated the shortage. When a lodger in Hare's house died, he turned...
anatomy training at universities, etc. Morthouses were alternatives to mortsafes, watch houses, watch towers, etc. A morthouse differs from a mortuary...
eighteenth century. Greyfriars also has two low ironwork cages, called mortsafes. These were leased, and protected bodies for long enough to deter the...
East Mersea is unusual for an English grave because it is covered by a mortsafe, a protective cage used at the time in Scotland to protect corpses from...
Strathkelvin Retail Park and Low Moss (HM Prison). watchhouse and iron mortsafe at Cadder Parish Church Cadder stables Strathkelvin retail park Cadder...
communion table now took centre place, with the pulpit on the left. A mortsafe outside the west door is an interesting historical object. After the disruption...
access to graves. In Scotland, vaults, watch houses, mort houses and mortsafes were used. Grave-robbing was a widespread problem and in 1821, the minister...
Gilbert wrote that his mother's funeral would be delayed until he had a mortsafe constructed to protect the grave. There is a monument to her, called 'Burns's...
attempt to thwart local body-snatchers. These deterrents were known as mortsafes. Punch magazine ran a poem about an eagle, which threatened a baby in...
restricted for safety reasons. The graveyard includes a number of cast iron 'mortsafes', large coffin-shaped containers used to thwart the body snatchers in...
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