Synopsis
Some of the worst jobs of the Dark Ages in Britain were mining gold for the Romans, ploughing fields with a wooden plough and other difficult and disgusting jobs of the period.
- Programme: The Worst Jobs In History
- Series: 1
- Episode: 1: Dark Ages
- Channel: Channel 4
- Broadcast year: 2004
- History
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