Also found in the case were a mirror, a crystal ball and brass wires as well as more than two hundred small silk parcels.

Buddhist relics, formed from the ashes of cremated Buddhist masters are an important aspect of the religion. Some of these relics are likely to be inside the pagoda finial.

The box was found in an underground shrine of the Dabaoen Temple. The steel case is believed to belong to a Buddhist Temple of the Northern Song Dynasty, about a thousand years ago.