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Basil John Wait Brown (22 January 1888 – 12 March 1977) was an English archaeologist and astronomer. Self-taught, he discovered and excavated a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939, which has come to be called "one of the most important archaeological discoveries of all time".
Archaeologist Basil Brown unearthed some of the greatest treasures ever found in the UK. The story of the Sutton Hoo discovery is being retold in the new Netflix film The Dig.
Jan 18, 2021 · We've unearthed The Dig movie's true story to determine if the film about the Sutton Hoo dig and ship burial is historically accurate. Meet the real Basil Brown and Edith Pretty.
Amateur archaeologist Basil Brown famously made the discovery of a lifetime back in 1939, when he brushed away the Suffolk soil and revealed the richest intact early medieval grave in Europe. More than a grave, it was a spectacular funerary monument on an epic scale: a 27m (88.6ft) long ship with a burial chamber full of dazzling riches.
Feb 5, 2021 · After Pretty hired self-taught amateur archaeologist Basil Brown, the dig began the following spring. Over the next year or so, Brown, who was later joined by archaeologists from the British...
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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.
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Mar 6, 2017 · Basil Brown (1888-1977) was invited to excavate at Sutton Hoo, Sutton in 1938-9, and made astounding discoveries there. The modern archaeological investigation of the site began in 1938 when the new landowner Mrs. Edith May Pretty, assisted by Basil Brown, opened three mounds.
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