Lorraine is planning to let me loose with the laser
on an extinct, 3,000-year-old dwarf hippopotamus skull.
I'm gonna let you loose on it.
Just point it down.
Can you see that light? Yeah, a red ball?
That red light shows you where you're going to be cleaning.
Do you wanna have a go on the tooth?
Yeah.
Sure.
Let's bring it round
so you can see it more easily.
That one in here?
Have a look in this.
They see the side of the tooth? Yeah. Have a go.
So start from here. Yeah.
And press,
and then as you hear the sound,
and then you can go in a little bit.
That's it. That's it.
That's right.
You're a natural.
Great well it's really satisfying, isn't right?
It's really satisfying. Right, clean it all up. Exactly, exactly. It's a really satisfying thing to do.
You're the first person to see that clean surface as well,
and that's very satisfying.
That is true, actually.
But I'm the very first person on Earth to see that.
You see, this work's well on large skulls, isn't it?
So things like hippos, elephants.
Any sized thing.
I've cleaned things that are really, really tiny as well,
so it works on all sorts of things.
And not just fossils,
you can clean butterfly wings and leaves of plants.
No.
All sorts of things with it. A butterfly's wings?
Yeah.
And it's very moreish, isn't it?
And then you will feel that you want to clean all of it then? You're right.
And after this I would have been moving onto something else?
Yes. Exactly.
I've got my eye on that big dinosaur as you walk into the museum.
Yes, absolutely.