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Sep 29, 2021 · Larry Horricks/Netflix. The relationship between landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) and Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) forms the backbone of the film The Dig. National Trust/Josh Ward. It...
She consulted the curator of the Ipswich Corporation Museum, Guy Maynard, and appointed local amateur archaeologist Basil Brown to start the work. Pretty oversaw the excavations herself for two years, and when the largest mound unearthed what looked like a huge ship burial, she knew it was of enormous historic significance.
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Jan 17, 2021 · 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...
Oct 1, 2021 · In the late 1930s, Edith Pretty enlisted amateur archaeologist Basil Brown to excavate some peculiar mounds on her property in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, UK. What he uncovered was the fossilized...
Edith Pretty provided Basil Brown with accommodation and assistants. Between June and August 1938 Basil Brown and his team excavated three mounds (today referred to as Mounds 2, 3 and 4). Within Mound 3, he unearthed the remains of a cremated man, along with items including a corroded iron axe-head and fragments of pottery.
Suffolk archaeologist Basil Brown was assisted by members of Edith Pretty's staff. He wrote regular letters to his wife from the dig, one of which described the ship burial as "a find of...
A light on the 'Dark Ages' Photos of the excavations. Room 41. Explore the impressive Anglo-Saxon artefacts in our Sutton Hoo and Europe gallery. Visit Room 41. 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.
