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Hey guys and gals! Went out on Sunday to a new site and had a look around. Managed this! I didnt bother plastering this as it was all in loose pieces. There was a 4th piece under the sand and, just above the right hand side of the digging thing you can see another bit of bone - i don't know if its related but i need to go back and get it. So here is the bit at the top in the above picture. And having cleaned it up i realized i needed to leave matrix in the tooth sockets to support the weak bits that hang out. Lesson learnt and i'll do that on the next section. You can see where i ended up leaving some matrix. Also the jar is paraloid. This bone is weak and chalky! Fortunately, as i get closer to the front there is more bone and it's more intact. Here is the next piece along, viewed from the top and showing the sockets. (i'll clean them out a bit to show the shape better) And here is how the 4 pieces go. The front 2 and the back 2 will join well, to each other, but the middle may not. Hoping they will but doubting at the moment.. Too much matrix to tell right now.. Its sort of a sandstone. Bit sticky and annoying. Getting there though. Thats all for now. I'll do more on the 2nd piece tonight and hoping to have it finished by Sunday. Cheers.