Article: Crushed by the Iron Age; Seventeen volunteers stepped back in time for a living history experiment, with mixed results.(Features)

Byline: Sue Blackhall

Everyone dreams of escaping the pressures of modern life. But while none of those who took part in a recent Iron Age experiment was under any illusions that living life as it would have been 2,500 years ago was going to be easy, few had bargained on the testing hardships that lay ahead.

"We wanted to see if a group of ordinary people from the modern world could live in an alien, prehistoric environment where life was nasty, brutish and short," says Peter Firstbrook, producer of the new BBC1 series Surviving The Iron Age.

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