18th February 2009, 08:26 PM
It seems I mis-remembered (althouh I'm sure that's what I was told), as Hunter (1996: 43) says: "working practice has tended to use an interval of at least 70-100 years as a guide to whether further enquiries are necessary, crimes older than that being adjudged to be beyond any realistic chance of solution"
Reference(!)
Hunter, J., 1996. Recovering Buried Remains, in Hunter, J., Roberts, C., and Martin, A. (Eds). Studies in Crime: An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology (London: Routledge)
Reference(!)
Hunter, J., 1996. Recovering Buried Remains, in Hunter, J., Roberts, C., and Martin, A. (Eds). Studies in Crime: An Introduction to Forensic Archaeology (London: Routledge)