An investigation has been launched after a human skeleton was found washed up on an Essex sea front.
The human bones were discovered forking out of a mud bank at Canvey Island near Southend-on-Sea.
The identity of the skeleton at Island Yacht Club at The Point currently remains a mystery.
They were found on May 25 in an area popular with dog walkers, runners and cyclists, reports Essex Live.
Today an inquest was opened at Chelmsford Coroner's Court into the death of the individual, with their identity and what happened to them remaining a mystery to this day.
Coroner's assistant Marianne Robson, confirmed that the carcass is currently "an unknown skeleton".
She added: "On May 25, skeleton remains were found at low tide protruding from the mud.
"Essex Police attended and Detective chief inspector Martin Pasmore carried out an investigation.
"A forensic post-mortem examination was carried out by Dr Swift at Southend Hospital on June 20."
Senior coroner for Essex, Caroline Beasley-Murray, hoped that any relatives or loved ones of the mystery shell come forward to help the police search for answers.
She said: "The body can be released. I shall want to see the post-mortem report and the police reports.
"If the family were to be found I shall also want to see something from them."
A full inquest of will be held on November 6, 2019.
Earlier in June Canadian authorities found that a grim discovery of children's bones several years earlier marked the key to an unexplored part of the nation's history.
A year of chemical tests on the pile of 'melted' child remains at Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula revealed them to be linked to a ship of 200 Irish immigrants that sank in 1847 while escaping the country's Great Famine.
Up until then the fate of the ship had remained unknown and untold.
