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All the developments are now ready for use - including the new tower overlooking the burial mounds. However, when that will open depends on what rules are being imposed for social distancing, because there are narrow staircases leading to the top. Mr Collinson said many visitors - particularly if they were making a long journey to visit a property - welcomed the chance to book in advance, so they knew for certain when they could get into the exhibitions at a time when they were not too busy. But while Sutton Hoo would inevitably be the main focus for many visitors, other sites in Suffolk shou...

Ralph Fiennes starred as Basil Brown in The Dig - Credit: LARRY HORRICKS/NETFLIX © 2021  Netflix film The Dig has brought the greatest Suffolk story ever told to the screens of millions of people - but what are people making of the movie starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan? The Dig was launched on Netflix on Friday - Credit: Larry Horricks/Netflix It tells the story of one of the most significant archaeological digs of the last century, where self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown was commissioned to excavate Edith Pretty's Sutton Hoo estate near Woodbridge after she became curious ...

“Finding out about Edith Pretty was a real eye-opener,” Carey Mulligan tells British Vogue of learning about the Suffolk landowner and archeologist Basil Brown, who together were responsible for one of the most important archeological discoveries of all time, the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo. Mulligan devoured books about Pretty ahead of playing her in new Netflix film The Dig. “Reading her biography, I was just so in awe of her. She was so extraordinary. She served as a volunteer nurse in the First World War, and she travelled to Egypt and America, a...

BBC News Published image captionThe National Trust team with actors Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes (centre) A film about an Anglo-Saxon burial ground will provide a "wonderful opportunity" for the site to "bounce back" from Covid-19, the National Trust said. The trust, which runs Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk, hopes The Dig will lead to a post-lockdown visitor boost. The Netflix film is about the discovery in 1939 of a king's burial ship and stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. Manager Nick Collinson said it was a "really exciting" opportunity. The Dig tells the story of how lando...

Netflix's The Dig has been slammed as sexist for reducing an experienced archaeologist to a 'bumbling, deferential, sidekick to her husband'. The film depicts the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and stars Ralph Fiennes as self-taught local archaeologist Basil Brown and Lily James as 27-year-old excavator Peggy Piggott. Mrs Piggott was the wife of archaeologist Stuart Piggott - played by Ben Chaplin - who arrived at the Suffolk site with imperious academic Charles Phillips (Ken Stott). During the dig at the burial mounds, Mrs Piggott - who was two ...