Iron Age reconstruction BBC TV programme
Mar. 03, 1977 - BACK TO THE IRON AGE Fifteen volunteer castaways, including three children, were at home to the press yesterday in a replica Iron Age settlement in which they aim to survive for a year in the primitive style of ancient Britons, Clad in coarsely woven cloaks of animal skins. In the group is the Ainsworth family they are Peter, 30, hle wife Lindsay, 29, and their three Children, Peter six, Nicholas, four, and Robin, 2. they were amonng the 15 chosen from nearly a 1000 volunteers from all over the world. The project has been devised Oar a BBC 00.101 to be called Living in the Past So for the next 12 morths they will be cut off from the outside world and the comionieor the 20th century for the Cobble oommuna, circe 30 BC. PHOTO SHOWS:- A View of the Celtic commune at Shaftesbury, Dorset, yesterday
