This is a rather gruesome item but did you know that anti-bodysnatching devices can still be found in older cemeteries around the country?
![An example of a 19th Century graveyard ‘mortsafe’. If you know of one in your area, please contact your local archaeological society as they are attempting to create a national register.](https://www.munster-express.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/N20S3Pic-300x225.jpg)
An example of a 19th Century graveyard ‘mortsafe’. If you know of one in your area, please contact your local archaeological society as they are attempting to create a national register.
Archaeologists say there are ‘mortsafes’ and graveyard ‘watch-houses’ all over the country but people don’t know what they are and regard them merely as elaborate wrought-iron decorations.
In those far off days, there was a big demand for human corpses by anatomists and medical students and grave robbing remained a major problem until 1832 when a new Anatomy Bill was introduced in Parliament and passed.