idk if it’s the place to ask but are there any subs where I could ask advice for cleaning & preserving an animal skull?

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so uhhm this summer I was going down the mountain river with my friends (it was knee-deep and quick so we were just going downstream on our asses 😀 ) and all of a sudden I’ve noticed kind of a bone-ish thing under a boulder (not like huge one but I’m sure I wouldn’t manage to even move it) and it quickly caught my attention.

I went ahead and tried to get it out of there. When I managed to do so it struck me that this wasn’t just a bone, I was outright holding an animals skull! It’s broken and I’m sure missing a part, but I still took it home.

FFW now, almost a year after, I remembered that I still have it. So now I wanna properly clean it and maybe do so else to preserve it, but I have no idea what to do – would soapy water be good enough or would it damage it? So I’m trying to find a sub dedicated to this but I have no idea what to look for 😭

I’m sorry if this doesn’t fit here but I don’t even know where to ask this kind of questions

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  2. Nick_Sabantz Avatar

    /r/bonecollecting

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