Just days after it emerged that a 4,000-year-old coffin containing a high-ranking individual had been found at a Lincolnshire golf club, two ancient kilns were discovered in Norfolk.

Medieval kilns were found at Caldecott Hall golf course, which just closed.

Tingdene Holiday Parks received a building permit to build 157 static holiday trailers on the site, but a condition of the permission was that development must wait until an archaeological work program has been completed.

The archaeologists therefore dug 21 trenches on the ground and discovered the ovens.

According to a report published by CFA Archeology, the largest furnace was a circular clay structure and likely would have had a domed roof.

“The smaller structure was less than a meter from the large one and was of simpler construction,” he adds, before saying that it could be a second oven or a raised hearth. with an open top that could have held a large pot or cauldron.

Samples taken from inside the kilns found small amounts of charred grain.

The report, posted on the Great Yarmouth Borough Council’s website, states: “Since the grain would have been ground into flour before it got to the bakery, this grain is a bit of a mystery.

“They may have been tossed in the oven to test the temperature or used to keep breads from sticking during baking.”

The grain still provides a clue to the original era of the kiln.

“The profusion of charred oats indicates a medieval (14th century) or later date,” he said.

He says use of the site may have been linked to the growing population of the area at the time and the food pressures that followed.

The area may have been part of the nearby Caldecott Manor House, at a time when “the weather hampered crop yield.”

As a potential fire hazard, bakeries or ovens may have been located some distance from main buildings for safety reasons.

Now we know how the Keizer family works. The team that brought us Bandon Dunes, Sand Valley and Cabot Cliffs need only a couple of things to imagine another golfing paradise: sandy lands and fascinating topography. Much of the rest is left to the architects at the top of their game: Tom Doak, David McLay Kidd, Coore-Crenshaw.

Much more complicated is the most recent Keizer project in Wisconsin – a recreation of the Lido, CB Macdonald’s long-lost legendary and long-lost course by the oceanfront on Long Island in 1914 – is much more complicated.

Using century-old records, Doak and Renaissance Golf were hired to render, as accurately as possible, what was considered by some to be one of the greatest courses on the planet. This means strict routing and little leeway to make the Central Sands of Wisconsin feel like the vast shores of the Atlantic.

“If this were just a beautiful golf course lost in history, I would have no interest in rebuilding it,” said Michael Keizer, son of Bandon Dunes founder Mike Keizer. “But the Lido was really exceptional, so anything we build that isn’t in that upper rung – we can only blame ourselves. So that’s another kind of pressure.

The pressure indeed, especially from the crowd of design enthusiasts who pushed the hype to 11. The Keizers will rely heavily on Peter Flory, a Chicago businessman who has researched the Lido for years, going so far as to create a 3D computer model of the original track. His work was so extensive that he was hired as a consultant historian of the project, an angel on Doak’s shoulder.

The course is slated to open in 2023, and its exclusivity adds to the stratospheric anticipation. The Lido will be a private club associated with the neighboring Sand Valley Resort. Public play will only be permitted on certain days. How many times? It remains to be seen, but it’s a course Keizer wants the world to experience.

“I don’t think golf in this country would exist in its present form,” he said, “if it hadn’t been for this [Macdonald] brought to the game.

To learn more about the Lido, check out its story at thelido.com.

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About 4,000 years ago, an elite Bronze Age man was buried with an ax in a hollowed-out log coffin. Now, archaeologists have announced the discovery of this coffin, which was found in an unexpected location: a golf pond in Lincolnshire County, UK.

The wooden-handled ax and the unique burial indicate that the man was a high-ranking individual. After the man’s contemporaries hollowed out a tree trunk slightly longer than a modern telephone booth, they filled it with plants to cushion his body. Then they buried the remains of the man with the ax and built a mound of gravel over the grave – a practice reserved for elite Bronze Age people, archaeologists said in a statement released last week. .

“The man buried in Tetney [Golf Club] lived in a world very different from ours ”, Tim Allen, an archaeologist from Historic England who participated in the project, said in the statement. “But like ours, it was a changing environment – rising sea levels and coastal flooding eventually covered his grave and burial mound with a deep layer of silt which aided in its preservation.”

Related: Photos: Bronze Age burial ground with headless toads

Archaeologists were stunned by the rare find, which they rushed to keep in July 2019, after Tetney Golf Club reported the accidental find during maintenance work on the course. After securing a grant of nearly $ 97,000 (70,000 pounds) from Historic England, an English history preservation organization, archaeologists have devoted hundreds of hours to the study and conservation of ancient remains , which they hope to exhibit at the Collection Museum in Lincolnshire within a year or two.

Conservation of the artifacts was difficult as they were discovered during a heat wave; archaeologists had to ensure that the delicate coffin and its contents did not collapse after being exposed to air and sunlight.

“Bronze Age log coffins are rare, and their survival after their discovery is even rarer,” Allen said, noting that British archaeologists have only documented about 65 log coffin burials from the bronze age. “Once the wet wood came out of the ground, it didn’t take long to react.

The remains were placed and studied in a cold store for a year, then transferred to the York Archaeological Trust, an educational and archaeological charity in the UK, where preservation work began.

“Organic matter was preserved in humid, airless conditions in the hollowed-out tree trunk,” project leader Hugh Willmott, archaeologist at the University of Sheffield, said in the statement. Some of the organic matter – the needle-shaped leaves of yew or juniper – “can tell us what plants were chosen to cushion the body and even what time of year this man was. been buried, ”he said.

According to a skeletal analysis, the man was around 1.75 meters (5 feet 9 inches), an impressive height for an individual in the Bronze Age. The man died in his late thirties or early forties and probably had osteoarthritis, probably “heavy work rather than old age”, Willmott told the New York Times.

The well-preserved stone-bladed ax from the burial – one of only 12 known in Britain – was probably more symbolic than functional, and may have served as a mark of authority, archaeologists said in the communicated. Additionally, the 10ft long (3m) by 3ft wide (1m) log coffin was from a single, fast growing oak tree that was split lengthwise and then cut up. Part of a wooden lid that covered the coffin has survived, archaeologists added.

The golf club coffin site is now protected as a Listed Monument, meaning it is a recognized archaeological site of national significance in the UK.

Originally posted on Live Science.

Lake Charles City Council members voted unanimously on Wednesday to complete the transfer of the Mallard Cove golf course to Chennault International Airport.

With this step, Chennault can now use the more than 100 acres of land once occupied by golf for economic development opportunities. Chennault officials have spoken in recent years of efforts to strengthen the airport’s cargo handling capabilities.

City administrator John Cardone said the transfer from Mallard Cove to Chennault was a huge plus for the airport.

“We want to see (Chennault) expand,” he said. “We support economic diversity, (and) it’s another part of the development not only of Lake Charles, but of southwest Louisiana.”

Several years ago, Chennault approached the city to develop ownership of the Mallard Cove golf course, which the city owned. In exchange for the city ceding Mallard Cove to Chennault, Chennault agreed to build another golf course in the city of equal or better quality.

The agreement calls for Chennault to pay $ 6.6 million to finance the design and construction of the new course. Chennault will also pay the city $ 15,000 per month for 20 years, or $ 3.6 million, to cover the costs of utility extensions and construction of the clubhouse.

Council members also authorized Mayor Nic Hunter to modify the existing cooperation agreement with Chennault in order to transfer the city’s insurance proceeds to Chennault. Cardone said this allows Chennault to repair the interior of the existing Mallard Cove clubhouse, which was damaged by Hurricane Laura last year. The city used part of the insurance proceeds for mitigation work, installing a new roof, and repairing the exterior of the pavilion, but did not perform any interior repairs.

“We thought it didn’t matter to us,” he said. “We want to let Chennault renovate it the way they thought it would be best for them. This allows us to give them those excess insurance products and let them do the work at the clubhouse. “

Meanwhile, Cardone said the new municipal golf course off East McNeese Street at MorganField is “100% complete” and could have a smooth opening by the first or second week of October, a Cardone said. The Mallard Golf Club project, located on 160 acres of land donated by MorganField Development, was inaugurated in 2018.

“We are delighted with this and what it brings to the community,” he said.

Last month, the city received offers for the clubhouse for the new golf course, but they went over budget and were rejected, Cardone said. He said this was likely due to the high cost of materials, as well as a shortage of labor and contractors.

The city will advertise the clubhouse offerings again later this year or early next year, Cardone said.

City Council voted in March for Sterling Golf Inc. to operate the new Mallard Golf Club at MorganField, Sterling Golf operates various golf courses in Texas.