A decade-long mystery shrouds the body of a middle-aged man found in a wood near the Scottish Border.

Despite intensive enquiries both in the UK and abroad, the creation of an image of this face through forensic reconstruction technology, the man remains unidentified.

Police Scotland detective inspector Stephen Bell, in a renewed appeal for information, said: “Someone, somewhere may hold a memory that could give us the breakthrough.”

The body was found on December 20, 2010, by a couple out walking at Burnside Plantation near Canonbie, just north of the Border with England, and was thought to have been lying for up to a month.

The man, believed to be between 40 and 60 years old, was wearing an olive green safari-type hat, a tan coloured cord style jacket, black trousers and grey coloured ankle boots.

A copy of La Repubblica, an Italian daily newspaper dated July 2010, was also found near the body.

Police described him as white, with six teeth missing – having had an extraction possibly within the previous six months – and he had a small scar on the left side of his body.

Till receipts from a shop in London which were dated 1991 were recovered from his pockets, but no items that could point to his identity.

Foul play was not suspected, and appeals were made by police for anyone who might have seen him, or could give information that might lead to his identification.

Detective inspector Bell, in Dumfries, said: “Because this is a rural location, things out of the ordinary do tend to be retained in memories, especially at this time of year.

"We are hoping that someone perhaps remembers something, or recalls something they had forgotten at the time.”