Plaster jacketing: how to preserve a 180 million year old ichthyosaur #RutlandSeaDragon

How do you remove a 180 million year old ichthyosaur from the ground you may wonder? You simply wrap it in plaster, of course! This painstaking exercise takes time, lots of tissue paper, tinfoil and plaster. Here palaeological conservation expert Nigel Larkin explains how the #RutlandSeaDragon was prepared to be lifted.

Discover the #RutlandSeaDragon in Digging for Britain on BBC Two at 8pm on Tuesday 11 January, or catch up on iPlayer: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0013dx6/digging-for-britain-series-9-episode-4

Visit anglianwater.co.uk/rutlandseadragon to find out more.

#ichthoysaurs #fossils #palaeontology

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