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. 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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