"Deid Hoose" in Crail Kirkyard
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"Deid Hoose" in Crail Kirkyard
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 7 Jun 2013
A late 18th-century morthouse from the period when parishioners dreaded body-snatchers making off with the bodies of their dead relatives. The deceased were placed temporarily within this secure structure before burial until their corpses had decomposed to the point where they were of no use to anatomists prepared to buy fresh ones for dissection.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.262729
Longitude
-2.626174