Craig tries some vieille cuisine

Chef Craig Grover cooked a typical 2,000-year-old meal last week to celebrate the archaeological discovery of an Iron Age settlement near Ashford in Kent.

Grover, sous chef at the 200-bedroom Ashford International hotel, cooked a nettle soup and a vegetable stew using barley, parsnips, wild rocket and garlic.

He also roasted a leg of pork on a spit with a glaze of honey and raspberries, ingredients thought to be delicacies during the Iron Age.

Grover said that considering the constraints of using authentic utensils, he was pleased with the result: "I'm pretty sure we'd be able to sell the roast pork in the hotel," he said.

Grover cooked the meal for 45 people involved in the recreation of the settlement. Remnants of houses and cremation pits containing bodies were found by builders on the site. The event was filmed for a television programme to be shown on the Discovery channel in mid-January.

Grover has been a chef for 12 years and has worked at London restaurants Cantina del Ponte, Titanic, and L'Odeon.