A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance and used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools...

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...

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...

rich placed their dead in secure coffins, and physical barriers such as mortsafes and heavy stone slabs made extraction of corpses more difficult. Body...

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...

illegible, though there are plenty that can still be read. An example of a mortsafe remains in the graveyard. By the size, it is thought that the grave belongs...

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...