Calvin Baxter had been wearing a beige coat and wellington boots, and using a white plastic bag as a makeshift waterproof hat, said police.
A member of the public was found at about midday on Sunday in a field near Wickham Market in Suffolk.
Police had been searching the area for missing man Calvin Baxter, 78, who was last seen on Friday at about 11am. At the time he was wearing a beige coat and wellington boots, and using a white plastic bag as a makeshift waterproof hat, said police.Formal identification of the body has yet to take place and the death is currently being treated as unexplained, said police.Suffolk was badly hit by the impact of Storm Babet on Friday and over the weekend, with some parts receiving two months' worth of rain in just four days.
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