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- Maynard recommended local archaeologist Basil Brown (played by Ralph Fiennes in The Dig movie) to find out what, if anything, lay beneath the strange mounds on Pretty's land. Edith Pretty hired Basil Brown, agreeing to pay him 30 shillings a week for two weeks to explore the mounds. He arrived on June 20, 1938 and stayed with Pretty's chauffeur.
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Jan 18, 2021 · Maynard recommended local archaeologist Basil Brown (played by Ralph Fiennes in The Dig movie) to find out what, if anything, lay beneath the strange mounds on Pretty's land. Edith Pretty hired Basil Brown, agreeing to pay him 30 shillings a week for two weeks to explore the mounds.
In spring 1938 arrangements were made between Edith Pretty, Guy Maynard, James Reid Moir (President of Ipswich Museum) and Basil Brown to begin excavating the site. Edith Pretty provided Basil Brown with accommodation and assistants.
Apr 1, 2021 · In the following spring, arrangements were made between Edith Pretty, Guy Maynard, James Reid Moir (President of Ipswich Museum) and Basil Brown to begin excavating the site. Edith Pretty provided Basil Brown with accommodation and assistants in the form of Bert Fuller and Tom Sawyer who were labourers on the estate.
Feb 2, 2021 · 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...
Jan 29, 2021 · In 1934, Basil met Guy Maynard, curator at Ipswich Museum, and was employed by the museum to investigate the site of a Roman villa near Stanton. When Edith Pretty approached Guy in 1938 about excavating the mounds on her land, he recommended Basil for the job.
When Pretty spoke to the curator of Ipswich Museum, Guy Maynard, about her desire to know what was causing the mounds, he introduced her to Brown, releasing him from his employment at the museum initially for three months to carry out a dig, for which he would be paid 30 shillings.
Jan 31, 2021 · In 1939, Edith Pretty (played in the movie by Carey Mulligan) hired self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her land. He unearthed a find no one expected, an intact 6th-century ship burial that redefined historical knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons.
