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Edith May Pretty (née Dempster; 1 August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
Feb 1, 2021 · Edith Pretty died of a blood clot in 1942 at the age of 59, passing on most of her nearly £400,000 estate on to her son Robert when he was only 12 years old.
Edith Pretty (1883–1942) was responsible for the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, one of the most important discoveries in British archaeology.
Feb 5, 2021 · In the summer of 1937, as the specter of World War II loomed over Europe, Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow living near Woodbridge, a small town in Suffolk, England, met with the curator of a local...
The archaeologists and landowner Edith Pretty were dumbfounded. This was clearly the grave of an important person – someone meant to be remembered. But who was it? And what can the Sutton Hoo excavation tell us about Anglo-Saxon society?
Feb 2, 2021 · In Netflix's 'The Dig,' Carey Mulligan plays the Englishwoman responsible for the groundbreaking Sutton Hoo excavation. Here's the true story of Edith Pretty.
Jan 17, 2021 · Widowed landowner Edith Pretty had called in local archaeologist Basil Brown to investigate a series of mysterious earth mounds on her estate on the Deben estuary, near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Jan 28, 2021 · Oliver Gerrish explores and background and life of Edith May Pretty (nee Dempster), who found the Sutton Hoo treasure in 1939.
Feb 4, 2021 · The real-life mystery of Edith Pretty, the woman who gave us The Dig. It was one of the biggest archaeological finds in British history – but the landowner behind the Sutton Hoo excavation remains...
Edith Pretty was the owner of the estate and instigated the excavation. Born into a wealthy family, she spent her youth touring the world and witnessed several excavations which gave her a life-long interest in archaeology.
