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Edith feels that the land on her estate may be home to a Viking burial ground; Basil thinks there’s something even older lurking under there. As various posh accents bump up against working-class ones, they eventually do discover quite a trove of corroded, centuries-old flotsam and jetsam, which attracts the attention of no less then the British museum. It will eventually be known as the Sutton Hoo Treasure, and were this not lifted from the real-life discovery of a major historical find, you’d have hoped that this dig might also unleash a few disturbed spirits, ready to turn Edith’s es...

'The Dig' is an upcoming movie that reimagines the discovery of the ship burial of Sutton Hoo and stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes

Mick LaSalle January 25, 2021Updated: January 29, 2021, 9:22 am Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes star in “The Dig.” Photo: Larry Horricks “The Dig” is the story of how priceless archaeological discoveries were made in Sutton Hoo, England. But you don’t need to know anything about that to enjoy the movie. Think of it, instead, as a satisfying human story about people involved in a fascinating project that starts off promising and ends up enormous. Along the way, it deals with Britain on the eve of war — it takes place in 1939, in the months leading up to the Nazi invas...

If you’ve ever pined for ‘Time Team: The Movie’, The Dig is for you. Adapted from John Preston’s novel, Simon Stone’s film details one of Britain’s most notorious archaeological digs, the discovery in 1938 of an Anglo-Saxon ship in the burial mounds at the delightfully named Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk. As anyone who’s followed Tony Robinson presiding over a three-day exploration of a Roman villa in the rain might guess, The Dig has to work hard to conjure up genuine dramas out of the minutiae of archaeology (this is no search for the Ark Of The Covenant), never really raisin...

It is one of the most important archaeological finds in British history, and it was made right here in East Anglia. The 1939 excavation of the...