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- 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...
- Precipitate" 1:54 12. "Plexus Necrosis" 1:48 13. "Unwitting Donor / Cadaver Exchange" 1:27 14. "Mortsafe Rupture" 3:24 15. "Deadhouse" 4:02 Total length: 36:22...