The era of the Resurrection Men came to an end with the Anatomy Act of 1832, which created a legal pathway for medical schools to obtain bodies for their students.
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This was a time when grave robbers, also known as Resurrection Men, would steal the recently interred and sell them to local medical schools for dissection, and such cages were designed to thwart such thefts.
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An iron cage around a burial plot in the grounds of Glasgow Cathedral. The name along the bottom indicates it was made by McCulloch and Company which was founded in 1810 at the Cumberland Ironworks in Glasgow.
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BRUCE DICKINSON Releases Music Video For 'Resurrection Men'
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