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Invented in the 1810s, this style of mortsafe was a heavy coffin-shaped metal box which was rented by a bereaved family and placed over the wooden coffin after interment.
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One of the most unusual features in the Ramshorn Cemetery in central Glasgow. This is the remains of a cast-iron mortsafe, it's outline just visible through the grass.
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Mortsafes and other devices from the Ramshorn Cemetery in central Glasgow which were used to ensure the dead stayed in their graves.
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These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools.
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A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow.
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#TombTuesday
In the 18th and 19th century, some graves had to be protected from “body snatchers,” and the wire fence around the grave was a way, the mortsafe, to slow down the profaners.
St Leonard, Sutton Veny, #Wiltshire
Is there a day for biers in the same way there is for windows, doors, gates and wood? If there isn't there should be
This C19 bier is interesting. It has a wagon roof framework (did that once hold fabric?) that looks like a #MortSafe #StAndrewStogursey #Somerset for #Woodensday
These features were designed to thwart the body-snatchers of the early 1800s who would steal the recently buried to sell to local medical schools.
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#glasgow #cadder #church #glasgowchurches #mortsafe #bodysnatchers #glasgowhistory
A cast iron mortsafe and stone watchhouse in the Cadder Parish Churchyard on the outskirts of Glasgow.
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#glasgow #cadder #church #glasgowchurches #mortsafe #bodysnatchers #glasgowhistory
A fabulous #TwitterSnap of the #MortSafe in the churchyard of the ruinous church of St. Leonard in Sutton Veny #Wiltshire. Autumn frost vs Spring grass
#31DaysOfGraves Day 10: Landscape
Mortsafe in the grass, iron grid, used to protect the tomb from "body snatchers",
St Leonard, Sutton Veny, #Wiltshire
#IronWorkThursday
A mortsafe was a lockable metal cage designed to prevent newly-buried bodies being dug up by body-snatchers and sold to medical institutions for dissection by students. This one was erected around 1857.
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An elaborate mortsafe around the burial plot of Thomson of Camphill in the Cathcart Old Parish Church Yard.
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Lots of crumbling tombs again, several listed and surrounded by metal fences. #TheTwitterMouse isn't sure if these are a form of #Mortsafe or if the fencing is just decorative. They are spiky so maybe there is some deterrent #TombsTuesday
It is a protection against body snatchers.
I look carefully for these wherever I go, because I don't stumble across them very often. A #Mortsafe. Not a medieval device for keeping the walking dead in, but a Victorian device for keeping body snatchers out. #TombsOnTuesday St. Leonard's #SuttonVeny #Wiltshire
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