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And, ahead of the film's release, curator of Early Medieval Europe Collections at the museum, Dr Sue Brunning, spoke to Express.co.uk about the collection. She said: “The most famous artefact is the helmet and that is the piece that is seen on the front of textbooks. “It is basically an extraordinary iron helmet that has a very iconic face on the front of it with a moustache and black eyes. “But there is also loads of gold and garnet work, they used a very intricate technique that involves the inlaying of small red gemstones. The new film is now available on Netflix (Image: NETFLIX)

The restored iron helmet is perhaps the most recognisable face of the Anglo-Saxon period “These people were not just marauding barbarians. They had culture! They had art!” So exalts Cambridge archeologist Charles Phillips, as he contemplates the treasure trove his team has just unearthed from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. This is a scene from The Dig – Australian director Simon Stone’s faithful fictionalisation of one of the most famous excavations in British history, out on Netflix now – and it goes some way to encapsulating the significance of the discoveri...

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This is why Netflix's new film The Dig is facing a backlash The film stars Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes Netflix's latest original film The Dig landed on the streamer just a few days ago (29 January) but already the long-awaited movie is facing backlash for the decision to cast 35-year-old Carey Mulligan as a 56-year-old woman. The Dig, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, follows the a wealthy widow named Edith Pretty (Mulligan) who hires an amateur archeologist named Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), to excavate the burial mounds on her East Anglian estate. The film is ...

BBC News By Kate Scotter image captionBasil Brown was an archaeologist who worked for Ipswich Museum 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. Who was Mr Brown and what was his role in revealing the Anglo-Saxon finds? Who was Basil Brown? Born in 1888, he was the only child of farmer George and Charlotte Brown. He spent almost his entire life in the Suffolk village of Rickinghall and left the local school there at the age of 12.