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Hi all, I had a little trip to the Jurassic coast this weekend gone. During that time I found a lovely bit of iridescent ammonite poking out of a rock that had slipped down. There are a number of other ammonites in the rock too. I was wondering if anyone had advice/criticisms of my prep plan. I've not worked with iridescent ammonites before but understand them to be quite flaky. Step 1 Soak to reduce salt water content. I've given it a good soak in tap water last night. Not sure if more is required but on previous fossils from the coast I've never had any issues doing it that way. Step 2 10% paraloid solution on the exposed iridescent section. Step 3 Use a prepping pick to carefully remove the matrix and as I go, add further paraloid to freshly exposed ammonite. I want to avoid using my Dremel as I think the vibration could cause damage potentially. Do this sound ok to you all?

Hi all, Spirals here. I'm from the UK, living in London at the moment. Mostly collecting from the Jurassic coast in Dorset these days. I just finished a trip and found an exciting iridescent ammonite which i'm looking forward to sharing with you all once I've prepped it! It's got some beautiful blue and green hues to it. Looking forward to meeting you all in due course

Hello, Could anybody help me to identify this ammonites spiecies? It was found in Seatown, Dorset, England. Thank you for any replies.

Hi Everyone, I found this strange shaped object at Seatown, Dorset and was wondering if anyone thought it could be something of interest. It stood out from everything around it. It was in a number of sections. On some sections there is some sort of crust, there are what look like shells on another area and in when looking at a cross section of the broken parts there is a defined orange centre. Should I see if the grey material comes off easily? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks G.

I popped down to Seatown today (one village along from the world-famous location of Charmouth). I haven't been there for years because we got a dog who has special needs (he's mad, basically) and whom I didn't trust in such a location. However, we thought we'd chance it, and sure enough, he was OK (apart from destroying his crate on the way there and going bananas on the way back). This is Seatown beach, with Golden Cap in the background. Finds were incredibly thin on the ground. This past week has been the half-term holidays, so the beaches will doubtless have been filled with families hitting one rock against another, and hoovering up any obvious finds. The tides were also incredibly weak and barely touched the bedrock or the slumped clays. However, fortune smiled on me when I spotted an absolutely tiny recent rockfall (probably less than 15kg of rock), which contained two lovely loose ammonites and a promising nodule. These are all from the Green Ammonite Member, named for the green calcite which is present in many of the ammonites. First off, this tiny one. I'd guess this is androgynoceras or one of that lot. But more excitingly, I found this beauty. This can only be prodactylioceras, a very rare ammonite in the UK. It is pyritised and in reasonable condition. As found, and then, after a quick soak to remove the clays. The spines of this species are in evidence: Most of the decent ammonites in this location are found in hard limestone nodules. Whilst loose ammonites are very common in the shale layers, they are normally crushed, with only the body chamber being preserved in three dimensions. I was very fortunate to find two loose, completely 3D ammonites in the same spot. I'd never found a prodac before, so needless to say, I'm fairly pleased. I also found some nice little nodules which I will post below tomorrow.

Hello everyone, If someone could help ID these for me i would be super grateful! Had some great finds, these were altogether....