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By Herald Magazine The best of our weekly guide to everything happening in Scotland Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown and Monica Dolan as May Brown Picture: PA Photo/Netflix/Larry Horricks Ralph Fiennes assumed his character in The Dig was a piece of fiction when he first read the script. The new Netflix film tells the extraordinary story of Sutton Hoo; the excavation - as the Second World War loomed - of a medieval grave in Suffolk, where a 27m-long ship was buried. Not only that, but a chamber full of dazzling ...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Quentin Jones for Harper's Bazaar Carey Mulligan: the good girl gone bad Ahead of her latest role as an avenging antiheroine, Carey Mulligan discusses learning from self-doubt, rooting for dubious characters and standing up for herself By Sophie Elmhirst Feb 2, 2021 Carey Mulligan is at home, where she's been - like everyone else - for the best part of a year. The day we speak she’s in her bedroom, in her house in Devon, and through the oddly personal glimpse Zoom allows into people's live...

Try finding a gentler escape from winter in a pandemic than spending 112 minutes in Suffolk’s waterways and sun-yellowed grasslands, the setting of The Dig, a tale of buried treasure, romance and heroism. Directed by Simon Stone and based on a novel by John Preston, the film dramatises the true discovery in 1939 by Basil Brown and Edith Pretty of the richest medieval grave to be found in Europe to date. History tells us that Mrs Pretty, an amateur archaeologist, owned a tract of land in Sutton Hoo beside the River Deben. Intrigued by a grassy archipelago of mounds on the land, she employed...

HEADLINES & GLOBAL NEWS By   Feb 02, 2021 05:12 AM EST The Dig and other traditional ancient series are on the queue on Netflix. Series of recommendations for well-timed books, films, podcasts, and music keep you within the knowledge. Unopened sarcophagus caches in Egypt. Eight miles of work on Ice Age rock found in the rainforest of the Amazon. In northern Italy, an elaborate Roman mosaic floor was excavated. These are simply one of the preceding year's significant archaeological discoveries. Netflix's latest film, "The Dig," a historical drama featuring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, co...