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imgflip.com/user/crazyscientistfarmer says that that was done to prevent grave robbing. It obviously is a VERY old gravestone.

You see, the more effective method to prevent grave robbing was to not bury people with things worth stealing.

Stealing bodies to sell to med Schools for practice cadavers, was an issue previously

Now, now.
Stealing corpses isn't grave robbing, it's grave defiling.

It would be both. Not only did they defile the sanctity of the grave, they stole the corpse from the grave. They defiled the body by dissection and practicing surgery and stitching. Victorian issue

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It's called a MORTSAFE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortsafe

The cages were used to stop GRAVE ROBBERS from stealing corpses for use by MEDICAL STUDENTS and ANATOMISTS. They were regularly used in Scotland in the early 19th century.

RESURRECTIONISTS were BODY SNATCHERS commonly employed by anatomists in the United Kingdom during the 18th and 19th centuries to exhume the bodies of people who had recently died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrectionists_in_the_United_Kingdom

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