Collar, corpse

Description

Iron collar which was bolted through the bottom of a coffin round the neck of a corpse, to prevent it being removed by resurrectionists, from Kingskettle, Fife, c. 1820

Museum reference

H.NT 105

Object name

Collar, corpse

Date

c. 1820

Materials

Iron

Associations

Kingskettle, Fife, Scotland, Northern Europe

Exhibitions

• Anatomy: A Matter of Death and Life (02 Jul 2022 - 30 Oct 2022)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Edinburgh and Medicine / R.G.W. Anderson and A.D.C. Simpson - Edinburgh, 1976, No. 237

On display

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