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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".
Feb 2, 2021 · The self-taught excavator Basil Brown unearthed some of the greatest treasures ever found in the UK.
Feb 9, 2021 · The Netflix movie ends with Basil working away in a field, with epilogue text revealing that the amateur excavator's name wasn't mentioned when the Sutton Hoo treasure was presented to the public in 1949.
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.
Jun 21, 2024 · Basil Brown, a self-taught archaeologist and astronomer from Bucklesham in Suffolk - who worked for the Ipswich Museum as an excavator on a contractual basis - discusses the moment he...
Jan 29, 2021 · The Sutton Hoo cache was unearthed by Basil Brown, an untrained excavator hired by landowner Edith Pretty, who was curious about what lay beneath the barrows on her Suffolk property near...
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Basil Brown, a self-taught archaeologist and astronomer from Bucklesham in Suffolk - who worked for the Ipswich Museum as an excavator on a contractual basis - discusses the moment he...
