Eventually, Brown got help from the gardener and animal keeper on the estate. She was the one who asked the local 'digger' Basil Brown to take a closer look at the largest of the mounds. Edith Pretty was a landowner in Sutton Hoo and very interested in archaeology. Until 1939, what lay beneath the grassy mounds of Sutton Hoo, just outside the city of Ipswich on the north coast of England, had been a mystery. You can read more about the dig at the British National Trust website. ' A refreshingly accurate portrait of archaeology,' wrote British archaeologist Roberta Gilchrist in The Conversation.īoth the novel by the author John Preston and Netflix's new film are probably close to what really happened to the people who took part in the dramatic excavation in Sutton Hoo, which was started just as World War II broke out. 'A beautiful tribute to a bygone era,' wrote Aftenposten, one of Norway’s national newspapers. The Netflix movie 'The Dig' is based on a novel of the same name. (Photo: British Museum) The ship and the gold helmet

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