Experts imagine skeletal stays recovered from a discipline in Nottinghamshire might be these of a person aged between 40 and 60 years of age.

Detectives have now opened a homicide inquiry and are interesting for details about socks and a shoe discovered on the web site.

Nottinghamshire Police mentioned proof gathered throughout a three-week search of the scene, close to Sutton-in-Ashfield, steered the sufferer was buried there in an try to hide his physique.

Bones had been discovered on 26 April by a member of the general public after development work on farmland in Coxmoor Road, prompting a police operation which noticed the exhumation of additional stays.

A autopsy examination has been performed by a crew of scientists, together with an anthropologist, suggesting the skeleton is that of a male between 5ft 4in and 5ft 6in tall.

DNA testing has dominated out a hyperlink with the disappearance and suspected homicide of 47-year-old Robin Barrows Spencer, a neighborhood man who was reported lacking in June 2004.

Officers are actually awaiting the outcomes of radiocarbon relationship testing to find out when the person died.

Appealing for info and confirming that two socks and a shoe had been discovered on the burial web site, Assistant Chief Constable Rob Griffin, of Nottinghamshire Police, mentioned: "It is important to remember this is not just a collection of bones in a field.

"This is somebody's beloved one whose household may have undoubtedly been ready a few years for solutions.

"At this stage we believe the man was murdered due to the injuries sustained. This includes trauma to parts of (his) skeleton, which are undergoing further analysis.

"We additionally imagine he was buried at this web site so nobody may discover him. It can also be attainable that the burial web site isn't the place the place his homicide occurred."

The murder is not one which happened recently, Mr Griffin said, adding: "We know this as a result of it takes plenty of years for the physique to decompose to bone."

"Any information you may have about who this person might be, or anything you may have heard, then we would ask you to get in touch. This murder may have happened some time ago, but times have changed and so have loyalties."

Officers additionally addressed "rumour and speculation" concerning the discover, stressing that there's nothing to point different our bodies are buried on the web site.

Superintendent Claire Rukas mentioned: "This is a single grave with a single deceased person in it.

"We know the woods round Coxmoor Road are a well-liked strolling spot. We know the invention of human stays will probably be alarming, however the public don't have anything to be afraid of and they're secure to make use of."