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The team at the Fenland Black Oak Project have been shortlisted in the Wood Awards 2022 for their 13-metre long Jubilee table in Ely Cathedral.

It was found buried deep in the mud of a Norfolk farmer's field a decade ago. But after ten years of careful crafting, a 5,000-year-old oak tree has been...

The Princess Royal has unveiled the Fenland Black Oak table on her visit to Ely, Cambridgeshire. She also took in Wisbech and Peterborough.

More than 43′ long and 5,000 years old, the top of the table made by The Fenland Black Oak Project is the culmination of more than 30 years of research, trial and error in milling and drying bog oak. Around 2012 I was building some cabinets into a sitting room off my clients’ kitchen when Paul, a member of the general contractor’s crew, struck up a conversation. “I just saw this amazing video about bog oak,” he said. “There’s this guy in England digging up 4,000-year-old trees and...