Stock Photo: Mortsafe In Greyfriars Cemetery
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An iron cage (known as a mortsafe) covering a grave in Greyfriars Cemetery in Edinburgh, Scotland. Mortsafes were used in the 19th century to prevent bodysnatchers from stealing corpes.
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