File:Watch house at Kirkton of Mortlach - geograph.org.uk - 612576.jpg
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English: Watch house at Kirkton of Mortlach This octagonal watch house in the graveyard of Mortlach Church was built in the early 1800s. It provided shelter for men guarding newly buried corpses from the activities of grave robbers who sold them to the anatomists in Aberdeen. |
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| Source | From geograph.org.uk |
| Author | Martyn Gorman |
| Attribution (required by the license) | Martyn Gorman / Watch house at Kirkton of Mortlach / |
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This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Martyn Gorman and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
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