'Ancient' remains found at Mulwala home near NSW-Victoria border, say police

Police were called to a Mulwala home when a bone was found. (ABC News: Dan Cox)

New South Wales police say human remains found near the Victorian border are likely to be those of an "ancient" Indigenous person. 

Murray River Police District officers were called to a home at Mulwala at 6.45pm on Wednesday when a bone was found.

The bone was examined by an archaeologist from Heritage NSW, police said on Saturday. 

The expert told police the find was consistent with the remains of an ancient Indigenous person.

In January,  police and the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council's ancestral remains unit were called to a site near the Murray River at Mildura where remains had been exposed by heavy flooding. 

A team of police forensic workers and anthropologists established the remains were "hundreds of years old". A coroner confirmed the bones were Aboriginal.

The head of the ancestral remains unit, Sissy Pettit Havea, said anyone finding suspected human remains should call police.

"It is not recommended to remove the bones … it may not be ancestral remains and it could be a reportable death," she said.

"If you discover bones you believe to be human and potentially Aboriginal in ancestry, the ideal thing to do is leave the bones in place."