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Article: Living: We went back in time by 2000 years but still couldn't resist visit to the pub!; TV volunteers put to the test THE plan was to leave behind every modern convenience and go back in time by 2,000 years. But ROZ LAWS discovers what really happened to the volunteers who lived in the Iron Age for a new BBC series.
- Article from:
- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- April 29, 2001
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SNEAKING off to the pub was not exactly part of the authentic Iron Age experience.
It wasn't what the programme-makers had in mind for the volunteers who were spending seven weeks living in 300 BC.
But who could blame them when they had to cope with food poisoning and the wettest autumn since records began?
They were cold and exhausted from the daily grind of collecting firewood, carrying water, grinding wheat and milking the goats.
So the younger members of the 17-strong group felt an illicit trip to the local pub, still dressed in their ...