Category:Mortsafes

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English: Mortsafes are heavy stone or iron contraptions placed over graves to prevent body-snatching or grave-robbing.

See also categories: Mort houses and Watch houses.

Mortsafe

contraption for protecting graves from body snatchers

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crime prevention (body snatching)

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Media in category "Mortsafes"

The following 82 files are in this category, out of 82 total.

00345 Kincardine Church, Strathspey, Moray 002.jpg 4,320 × 3,240; 5.2 MB
A Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 5329857.jpg 640 × 444; 125 KB
Banchory Devenick mortsafe.jpg 5,146 × 3,071; 5.69 MB
Cadder, Parish Church, watchhouse and iron mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 1343317.jpg 640 × 479; 533 KB
Cast iron mortsafe coffin, Colinton Parish Church, Midlothian, Scotland.jpg 4,896 × 2,752; 4.36 MB
Cast iron tombstone, St Columba, Stewarton, East Ayrshire.jpg 3,245 × 2,304; 4.22 MB
Channelkirk mortsafe.jpg 800 × 600; 208 KB
Cluny, The graveyard - geograph.org.uk - 1041393.jpg 640 × 480; 222 KB
Colinton Mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 347206.jpg 640 × 472; 130 KB
Edimbourg mortsafe.JPG 2,000 × 1,500; 2.1 MB
Edinburgh, Beauty and horror in Greyfriar's graveyard - geograph.org.uk - 1007401.jpg 480 × 640; 602 KB
Edinburgh, Tourists in Greyfriars graveyard - geograph.org.uk - 1002602.jpg 640 × 328; 374 KB
Entrance to vault in Leochel old churchyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012143EA.jpg 2,848 × 4,022; 4.82 MB
Fraser Mausoleum, Cluny kirkyard. - geograph.org.uk - 458465.jpg 569 × 635; 100 KB
Graveyard Guardhouse - geograph.org.uk - 940349.jpg 480 × 640; 88 KB
Greyfriars Kirkyard 009.jpg 4,272 × 2,848; 2.89 MB
Greyfriars Kirkyard 010.jpg 2,848 × 4,272; 3.11 MB
Greyfriars mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 2384847.jpg 640 × 480; 106 KB
Greyfriars Mortsafes - geograph.org.uk - 5329854.jpg 640 × 427; 108 KB
Iron mortsafe 1801-1822. Full view, 3-4 gallery shot. Wellcome L0057798.jpg 3,204 × 4,356; 4.52 MB
Iron mortsafe 1801-1822. Side view, gallery shot. Wellcome L0057799.jpg 4,512 × 3,072; 4.15 MB
Kincardine Church Mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 1870295.jpg 640 × 427; 359 KB
Kirkton of Skene church - geograph.org.uk - 265618.jpg 640 × 480; 377 KB
Mortsafe at Oyne, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012139EA.jpg 3,994 × 2,802; 4.91 MB
Graveyard Wellcome L0012144.jpg 1,116 × 1,604; 792 KB
Mort safe - geograph.org.uk - 902153.jpg 480 × 640; 84 KB
Mort Safe as Cadder Parish Church - geograph.org.uk - 1014281.jpg 428 × 640; 114 KB
Mort stone in Inverurie graveyard - geograph.org.uk - 174883.jpg 427 × 640; 128 KB
Mort-Safe In Alloway Auld Kirk - geograph.org.uk - 1213375.jpg 640 × 341; 90 KB
Mort-safe, to prevent body-snatching. Wellcome L0000172.jpg 1,584 × 1,186; 736 KB
Mortsafe at Inverurie graveyard, Aberdeenshire Wellcome L0012141EA.jpg 3,990 × 2,808; 5.03 MB
Mortsafe at Logeriat Church1.jpg 1,957 × 1,396; 820 KB
Mortsafe at Prestwick.JPG 2,303 × 3,976; 4.97 MB
Mortsafe Banchory-Devenick - geograph.org.uk - 299265.jpg 640 × 377; 103 KB
Mortsafe coffin, Colinton Parish Church, Midlothian, Scotland.jpg 4,896 × 2,752; 4.59 MB
Mortsafe in Banchory Devenick graveyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome M0015246EA.jpg 3,839 × 2,745; 3.68 MB
Mortsafe in Colinton Kirkyard.jpg 1,600 × 1,200; 818 KB
Mortsafe in graveyard at Durris, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012144EA.jpg 4,002 × 2,846; 4.76 MB
Mortsafe in Greyfriars Kirkyard.jpg 640 × 450; 102 KB
Mortsafe in Skene churchyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012143EB.jpg 3,996 × 2,812; 5.06 MB
Mortsafe in the cloisters at St Conan's Kirk.JPG 4,608 × 3,456; 3.44 MB
Mortsafe in Towie churchyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012142EB.jpg 3,996 × 2,846; 5.05 MB
Mortsafe tackle at Invererie, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012145EA.jpg 2,806 × 3,996; 4.84 MB
Mortsafe used as a cattle trough, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012140EB.jpg 4,028 × 2,806; 4.89 MB
Mortsafe, Greyfriars Kirk.jpg 1,598 × 1,123; 1.83 MB
Mortsafe, Inchinnan Parish Church.JPG 3,043 × 3,394; 5.03 MB
Mortsafe, lych gate, Ayr Auld Kirk, South Ayrshire.jpg 4,270 × 2,437; 2.13 MB
MortsafeGreyfriarsKirkyard 2013-08.jpg 4,310 × 2,868; 10.58 MB
Mortsafes at Kinnernie graveyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012141EB.jpg 3,982 × 2,852; 4.87 MB
Mortsafes in churchyard Wellcome L0012138.jpg 1,694 × 1,208; 890 KB
Mortsafes in Cluny graveyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome L0012142EA.jpg 4,018 × 2,858; 4.92 MB
Mortsafes in Cluny kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 174646.jpg 640 × 427; 124 KB
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 1812707.jpg 640 × 480; 262 KB
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 1812710.jpg 640 × 480; 254 KB
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 3881310.jpg 1,600 × 1,053; 323 KB
Mortsafes, Alloway Kirk, South Ayrshire, Scotland.jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 7.45 MB
National Museum of Scotland - the mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 3224210.jpg 640 × 480; 47 KB
Old Aberfoyle Kirk, mortsafe at the entrance, Stirlingshire.jpg 4,896 × 2,752; 7.3 MB
Old Aberfoyle Kirk, mortsafes and the entrance, Stirlingshire.jpg 4,896 × 2,752; 6.73 MB
Old Aberfoyle Kirk, second mortsafe at the entrance, Stirlingshire.jpg 4,896 × 2,752; 7.03 MB
Old Calton Graveyard Mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 5328945.jpg 640 × 480; 130 KB
Old grave - geograph.org.uk - 622517.jpg 640 × 480; 64 KB
Protected Graves to prevent Grave Robbers - geograph.org.uk - 3301588.jpg 600 × 450; 143 KB
Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers Wellcome M0015587.jpg 2,837 × 3,772; 2.29 MB
Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers Wellcome M0015588.jpg 2,799 × 3,790; 2.88 MB
Railings used to protect graves from body snatchers Wellcome M0015589.jpg 3,747 × 2,815; 2.53 MB
Skene Mortsafe - geograph.org.uk - 965904.jpg 640 × 427; 81 KB
St Edmund's church - barred grave - geograph.org.uk - 661121.jpg 480 × 640; 129 KB
St Maurs Glencairn, Kilmaurs, East Ayrshire, Scotland - anchors for a mortsafe.jpg 3,641 × 2,609; 6.23 MB
Subterranean vault in graveyard at Belhelvie Wellcome L0012145EB.jpg 4,020 × 2,864; 5.24 MB
The churchyard of St. Michael's Church, Warden (2) - geograph.org.uk - 1067040.jpg 640 × 480; 129 KB
The Old Mort-safe - geograph.org.uk - 1020693.jpg 640 × 480; 84 KB
Through The Lychgate - geograph.org.uk - 1020718.jpg 640 × 426; 66 KB
Watch-house at gates of Newhill's graveyard, Aberdeenshire. Wellcome M0015244.jpg 3,850 × 2,749; 4.15 MB
Wellcome L0012141.jpg 1,184 × 1,664; 1.05 MB
Wellcome L0012142.jpg 1,589 × 1,138; 794 KB
Wellcome L0012145.jpg 1,610 × 1,120; 852 KB
An Old Mort-safe - geograph.org.uk - 1020705.jpg 640 × 480; 79 KB
Iron coffin cover, Kirkton of Durris kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 272017.jpg 640 × 480; 478 KB
Logierait Kirk and Kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 284040.jpg 640 × 480; 465 KB
Mortsafe Old Kinnernie - geograph.org.uk - 296083.jpg 640 × 480; 126 KB
Mortsafes in Logierait kirkyard - geograph.org.uk - 278670.jpg 640 × 480; 535 KB

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