Rhiannon wrote:
https://archive.org/stream/jstor-20563510/20563510#page/n4/mode/1up
Ewgh indeed. Perhaps it matures like a fine wine in a cellar. Hmm. a mid 19th century article about bog butter. The author had tasted every example he'd got his hands on. Ewgh.
Not sure even Lydon would get many takers for that, to be honest.
Nothing much to add to your spot-on analysis, but I do agree that it suffered from make-facts-fit-theory syndrome rather. The Iron Age is quite strangely represented in TV, I thought the same about that episode of the Neil Oliver series.