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READ MORE Is The Dig a true story? According to the National Trust, who runs the site now as a tourist attraction, The Dig is based on a novel written by John Preston. While the film is based on the novel, many of the events and characters depicted in both the film and the novel are inspired by real events and real people. One of these is Edith Pretty who owned the Sutton Hoo estate and was the instigator of the first excavations, which ended up revealing some incredible medieval finds. In July 1937, Edith wrote to local historians who eventually put her in touch with Ipswich Museum, which in...

We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. The True Story Behind Netflix's 'The Dig' How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesn't tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but The Dig has turned out to be exactly that. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn feature in the film based on John Preston's 2007 novel, also called T...

In 1938, excavator Basil Brown broke ground at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, investigating a series of mounds on the property of landowner Edith Pretty. There, he makes an overwhelming discovery: the mounds mark the burial site of an Anglo-Saxon king.  Director Simon Stone brings the narrative to life in “The Dig,” a recent Netflix film based on both the historical incident and John Preston’s novel of the same name. For a production about a significant discovery, it handles themes of exploration and the importance of history lightly, leaving everything at face v...

The 86ft Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, was unearthed in 1939. More than 260 items were discovered, including weapons, armour, coins, jewellery, gold buckles, patterned plaques and silver cutlery. New Netflix film The Dig, starring Lily James, Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, dramatises the find and delves into the lives of those involved in the excavation. Archaeologists Basil Brown, Peggy and Stuart Piggott and Charles Philips, as well as landowner Edith Pretty and her 12-year-old son Robert are all portrayed in the film. The new release has received positive reviews from ...

The Queen's Gambit—and the streamer's newest addition to the genre is no different. The Dig, a drama film released Jan. 29, is set in the English countryside during World War II, and tells the true story of the groundbreaking (pun very much intended) archeological dig that would come to be known as Sutton Hoo. During the excavation, led by Basil Brown (played in the film by Ralph Fiennes), archeologists discovered multiple Anglo-Saxon burial sites dating back to the sixth and seventh centuries, including a remarkably well-preserved and undisturbed ship burial containing hundreds of artifac...