The box contained 262 human bone fragments, ranging from complete arm bones to tiny skull fragments.
Remnants from the grave include bone fragments, caps of tooth enamel, and a thumbnail-sized piece of textiles.
That's a common procedure to preserve bone fragments for later use, Rosser said.
Tests on bone fragments at Mr Bridger's house "strongly support" the fact they came from a human skull, she said.
Detectives said only three of the bone fragments found could be human, and two of these were hundreds of years old.
Doctors then temporarily implanted the skull piece in her abdomen -- a common procedure to preserve bone fragments for later use.
More than 700 bone fragments have been found in and on the building since last autumn, when preparations to dismantle it began.
Dr Mark Robinson, working with WWF Thailand, later discovered other specimens caught by hunters, and also identified bone fragments in an owl pellet.
About 45 minutes later, McNeil will move to the operating room to clean out Mellinger's wound, washing out bits of bullet and bone fragments from his thigh.
They removed some of the loose bone fragments from the eye socket and then placed a titanium mesh plate to help reconstruct the orbital rim and floor.
When she returned to competition, she carried on the court a small bottle containing the bone fragments cut from her ankle, just to remind her of how lucky she was to compete again.
About 60 truckloads of debris that could contain tiny fragments of bone or tissue were unearthed by construction crews that have been working on the new World Trade Center in recent years.
The shock wave shattered the thinnest bone of her skull, and fragments entered her brain, the hospital said.
Over the course of three expeditions, which began in 2006, researchers from the Canadian Museum of Nature collected 30 fragments of fossilised leg bone from Ellesmere Island in Canada.
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