It followed a group of fifteen volunteers, six couples and three children, recreating a British Iron Age settlement, where they sustained themselves for a year, equipped only with the tools, crops and livestock that would have been available at that time.
The settlement they built was based on a nearby archaeological site dated to around the same time in the Iron Age.
But once the harsh weather relented and the settlement was self-sufficient, the group grew its own crops and used domesticated animals for dairy and meat.
Breakfast almost every day consisted of porridge of boiled wheat with milk and, if any was present, honey.
Field beans and peas, parsnips and leeks were grown by the group as they are thought to have been available foods in Britain at the time.
These 'not Iron Age' foods included potatoes, rice, cabbage, carrots, swede, onion, turnip.
Seasonal foraging for things such as wild garlic, young beech and lime tree leaves, mushrooms, blackberries and hazel nuts supplemented their diet for short periods during the spring and autumn.
The group washed with water and clay, which didn't disinfect, but, as they found, was suitable to remove dirt and other impurities from their skin and hair.
A similar 'hot iron' method was used to sterilise milk vessels, which could quite quickly be brought up to boiling.
The group spent about six weeks in June and July cutting hay with sickles to stock to keep the animals supplied for the coming winter.
July and August were harvest time for wheat, barley, oats, peas and field beans.
The group reenacted Celtic festivals:- Bealtaine on 1 May, Mid summer, Lughnasa on 1 August, Samhain on 1 November, winter solstice, and Imbolc on 1 February.
An archeologist from Bristol University (name needed) mapped and recorded the site with a view to one day carrying out an archeological dig.
Before they departed the fire in the centre of the round house was built up so that it would burn for as long as possible.
To this day the group maintains that the experiment was paramount in teaching them to be self-sufficient and be able to survive like Iron Age people if need be.
To stop the area from becoming a tourist attraction in the quiet section of woods where it was located, the settlement was burned down a few months after the project ended.
[2] In 2001 the BBC repeated the experiment with for a three-month period Surviving the Iron Age, which included three children of 'Living in the Past' cast members.