Duddingston Kirk-LockFast Burial Tombs

LockFast Burial Tombs

In an age when Grave robbing was rife and body snatchers like Burke & Hare prowled the City cemeteries looking for recently buried bodies to snatch. This was to keep up with the ever increasing demand for "fresh cadaver's" needed for the flourishing Medical Science Teaching college at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh.

Rich people had these iron gated tombs built to prevent their deceased loved ones bodies from being snatched

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