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16 January 2021. By Katy Prickett,BBC News. Netflix. Carey Mulligan as Sutton Hoo landowner Edith Pretty with Ralph Fiennes as archaeologist Basil Brown. The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed...
19 hours ago · Eleven of their photographs are now on display in Tranmer House at Sutton Hoo, the home of landowner Edith Pretty, who instigated the dig in her grounds leading to the 1939 discovery. Ms Lack and ...
Read Edith Pretty's remarkable story. The interment of a ship at Sutton Hoo represents the most impressive medieval grave to be discovered in Europe. Inside the burial mound was the imprint of a decayed ship and a central chamber filled with treasures. But who was buried there and what did it reveal about this period in history?
Jan 17, 2021 · 17 January 2021. Netflix. Carey Mulligan as Sutton Hoo landowner Edith Pretty with Ralph Fiennes as archaeologist Basil Brown. By Katy Prickett. BBC News. The Anglo-Saxon treasures...
Edith Pretty (née Dempster, 1883-1942) 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. She married her husband, Major Frank Pretty, and moved to Sutton Hoo in 1926.
Jul 24, 2019 · In 1939, with Britain on the brink of the Second World War, Sutton Hoo landowner Edith Pretty asked local archaeologist Basil Brown to excavate the largest of several burial mounds on her estate. He'd dug adjacent mounds the previous year but found only fragments of Anglo-Saxon artefacts looted centuries before.
Dec 6, 2023 · In 1939 Mrs Edith Pretty, a landowner at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, asked archaeologist Basil Brown to investigate the largest of several Anglo-Saxon burial mounds on her property. Inside, he made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries of all time.
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