The Ramshorn
Walled merchant graveyard used from seventeen nineteen, beside a Gothic church of eighteen twenty-four.
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This guide to the Ramshorn graveyard in Glasgow's Merchant City goes back to eighteen thirteen, when a woman named Janet McAlister was buried among the city's wealthy families. It follows the university anatomy lecturers and students whose daily work depended on a supply of bodies the law would not give them, and a city that did not stay quiet. Best heard at the railings, looking along the walls where the old stones now stand.
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