Quoting%20commentary for Eduyot 8:5

הֵעִיד רַבִּי עֲקִיבָא מִשּׁוּם נְחֶמְיָה, אִישׁ בֵּית דְּלִי, שֶׁמַּשִּׂיאִים הָאִשָּׁה עַל פִּי עֵד אֶחָד. הֵעִיד רַבִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ עַל עֲצָמוֹת שֶׁנִּמְצְאוּ בְדִיר הָעֵצִים, אָמְרוּ חֲכָמִים, מְלַקֵּט עֶצֶם עֶצֶם וְהַכֹּל טָהוֹר:

R. Akiva testified in the name of Nechemiah, Ish Beth D'li, that a woman may be married on the testimony of one witness. [If her husband went abroad and one witness came and said that he had died, she is married on the strength of his testimony. R. Yehoshua testified about bones that were found in dir etzim [(the wood storage compartment (of the Temple) where they stored all the wood for the wood pile. It was in the northeast corner of the ezrath nashim. Some bones of dead bodies were found there) ]: The sages said: They are removed bone by bone and all is tahor [i.e., We do not fear that men or vessels may have become tamei through them, for this constitutes "safek tumah in the public domain," which is tahor. And in the last chapter of Zevachim the Gemara adduces that they wished to decree tumah in all of Jerusalem because of the bones which were found in the wood compartment, but R. Yehoshua said to them: "Would it not be a shame and a mortification for us to decree tumah upon the city of our fathers!"]

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