Morthouse
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A morthouse or deadhouse was a specialised secure building usually located in a churchyard where bodies were temporarily interred before a formal funeral took place. These buildings date back to the t
The unusual circular morthouse at Udny in Aberdeenshire.
Cast iron mortsafe tombstone, St Columba's Kirk, Stewarton.
A watch tower at Dalkeith
A metal coffin mortsafe at Colinton near Edinburgh.
Mortsafe
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A mortsafe or mortcage was a construction designed to protect graves from disturbance, used in the United Kingdom. Resurrectionists had supplied schools of anatomy since the early 18th century. This w
Mortsafes at a church yard in Logierait, Perthshire, Scotland
Mortsafes in Cluny kirkyard
A watchtower built in Dalkeith town cemetery, near Edinburgh, in 1827.