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This is a grave from the Victorian age when a fear of zombies and vampires was prevalent. The cage was intended to trap the undead just in case the corpse reanimated.

*Correction by Spiderbait

"Nope, that's a Mortsafe. A device invented in 1816 to deter body-snatchers. And by 'body-snatchers' I mean grave robbers that were paid by schools, who had no legal way to procure cadavers, to find corpses for them to dissect.

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I presume it's the other way round. I'd say those cages were meant to keep people from desecrating the grave and/or stealing the corpse for medical research.