«MORTSAFE» İLE İLİŞKİLİ İNGILIZCE KİTAPLAR
mortsafe sözcüğünün kullanımını aşağıdaki kaynakça seçkisinde keşfedin.
mortsafe ile ilişkili kitaplar ve İngilizce edebiyattaki kullanımı ile ilgili bağlam sağlaması için küçük metinler.
The lights went out. . . . A mortsafe is an iron cage locked over a grave to deter body snatchers. They haven't been seen in Scottish kirkyards for almost two centuries.
Lillian Stewart Carl, 2011
enclose the coffin in a mortsafe, an iron frame which was clamped around the
coffin and laid in the ground along with it. After six weeks this was raised from the
grave again, and the coffin freed from the frame replaced inthe hole. The weight ...
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Edinburgh Street Furniture
The parish churchis in Dell Road, and its churchyard is noted forits possession
ofan unusual mortsafe. This is in theform of a heavy pieceofiron shaped rather
like a coffin. This device would have been availableto hire, andit would havebeen
...
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Edinburgh Days: Or, Doing what I Want to Do
Decorating the tiara were four black balls, each as full bodied as a purple grape.
Between the balls glittered three multi- pointed black stars, in the center of each
star a small ball. Next to the jewelry lay an iron mortsafe, Airth and 1831 cast on ...
Samuel F. Pickering, 2007
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Body Snatching: The Robbing of Graves for the Education of ...
A mortsafe was plalced over one or more graves or a vault, and secured in a
concrete foundation. The door or gate was fitted with a lock. Another style of
mortsafe consisted of massive stone slabs fitted with iron latticework underneath
and ...
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Burial Terminology: A Guide for Researchers
The mortsafe is defined by Child (1996:38) as "stone or iron vault that was
erected around a churchyard tomb to prevent the body inside from being carried
off by body snatchers." Blakely and Harrington (1997:169) illustrate a low
mortsafe that ...
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The Scottish Antiquary: Or, Northern Notes & Queries
The coffin is then lowered, the cagelike mortsafe put over it, and the hinged rods,
the tops of which interlace, bent over and padlocked, the keys being given to the
nearest relation. The grave is then filled up. When the mortsafe is removed, the ...
Arthur Washington Cornelius Hallen, John Horne Stevenson, 1889
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
... 1ST AUGUST 1847 AGED 70 YEARS This cofiin was still intact, though tilting
downwards slightly to the N; and it soon became clear that it overlay a further
lead coflin (3), and was resting on the collapsed iron mortsafe of that earlier
burial.
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LONDON AND EDINBURGH MONTHLY JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. ...
There was a mortsafe put over the grave. 1 fixed the day of the funeral. Alexander
Wylie, my brother-in-law, kept the key of the mortsafe. He was buried in the
church-yard of Dunlop. The body was removed to Dunlop on the day of the
funeral.
DR. JOHN CORMACK, EDITOR, 1844
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Report of the trial of Mrs. Gilmour for the alleged murder ...
There was a mortsafe put over the grave. I fixed the day of the funeral. Alexander
Wylie, my brother-inlaw, kept the key of the mortsafe. He was buried in the church
-yard of Dunlop. ' The body was removed to Dunlop on the day of the funeral.
«MORTSAFE» TERİMİNİ İÇEREN HABERLER
Ulusal ve uluslararası basında konuşulanları ve
mortsafe teriminin aşağıdaki haberlerde hangi bağlamda kullanıldığını keşfedin.
These Grave Cages are Remnants of the Body-Snatching Era in …
mortsafe A mortsafe at Greyfriars. Photo: Postdlf/Creative Commons. Having scored a princely sum with no questions asked, Burke and Hare ... «Slate Magazine, Şub 15»
Do cemeteries have one foot in the grave?
... the storied richness of Greyfriars in Edinburgh, where you can still see a mortsafe - an iron cage placed over the grave as protection against body-snatchers. «Herald Scotland, Eyl 14»
Here's how graves were protected from bodysnatchers in 1800s …
The anti-bodysnatching grille, also known as a mortsafe, above wasn't a one off – there were more found in graveyards around the country. «thejournal.ie, Ağu 14»
CRAIG BROWN'S BOOK OF THE WEEK: Death sentences: Review …
... especially those near medical schools, were forced to install watch- towers, while others invested in a cage arrangement, called the mortsafe, ... «Daily Mail, Mar 13»
Evidence of grave robbers found in the Midlands
Archaeologists studying the site of the former graveyard in Sandwell Road found a mortsafe - a metal contraption placed around a coffin to stop ... «ITV News, Oca 13»
