Piltdown Golf Club

The sleepy hamlets of Piltdown in East Sussex became famous the world over in 1912 when amateur archaeologist, Charles Dawson, claimed to have found a 500,000-year-old skull, which proved the missing link between ape and man. Forty years later, it was established that the skull was an ingenious combination of a human cranium and an ape’s jaw. Piltdown Golf Club was established in 1904, long before the Piltdown Man hoax was finally exposed. The club’s…