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June

Episode 10 of 12

Five archaeologists and historians run a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I. It's June, and the team need to wash and shear their sheep.

Series in which five experts, archaeologists and historians, take on the challenge of running a farm for a year as it would have been in the reign of King James I.

It is June, and the team need to give the sheep a good wash in a local stream, warmed by a period potion called sheepwashers' posset. Only then can they start shearing them by hand, a backbreaking task. In the dairy, the girls have a go at making cheese the old fashioned way, and the boys have to catch up with weeding the wheat field.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 9 Nov 2009 19:30

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Role Contributor
Producer Peter Sommer
Director Peter Sommer

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