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Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown in The Dig - Credit: LARRY HORRICKS/NETFLIX © 2021  Netflix blockbuster The Dig, based on the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon ship at Sutton Hoo, is out now. Here's everything you need to know about the filming of the tale of Suffolk's greatest find. Who is in the film? The Dig, itself based on the John Preston novel of the same name,  was originally set to be created by BBC Films before Netflix took over production in 2019. Carey Mulligan was cast as Edith Pretty - Credit: Larry Horricks/Netflix It was originally reported that Nicole Kidman would be cast as lando...

Sometimes you just don’t want a movie to end. The characters are so vivid and multidimensional, the milieu so inviting, the circumstances so compelling, you don’t want to let go. “The Dig,” starring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, is such a movie. Suffolk, England, with the nation on the verge of war with Germany in 1939, may not sound comforting, but you would be surprised. Despite the prosaic title taken from the source novel by John Preston (based on the true story of the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure), “The Dig” is a tale bathed in warm nostalgia and a romanticism st...

A NEW Netflix film tells the story of a former Brighton school pupil and her role in a major archaeological discovery.

LARRY HORRICKS / NETFLIX 'What will survive of us in a thousand years?’ muses a Larkinian Lily James in The Dig, in which she plays an archeologist on the most important excavation of her lifetime. A coin, perhaps. Fragments of the mug she’s holding. Cogs from her lover’s watch. Little else. A very British kind of melancholy soaks this film, about the remarkable discovery in 1939 of an Anglo-Saxon longship beneath mounds of earth near the Suffolk coast. It’s a story of two ill-matched halves: the first starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, the second more sexed up, with Lily Jam...

A replica of the helmet discovered at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk - Credit: Phil Morley Netflix's film The Dig - based on the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon ship at Sutton Hoo - has been released today. Here's what was found in the historic excavation back in 1939. How were the treasures found? Basil Brown, a self-taught archaeologist, was commissioned to excavate Edith Pretty's Sutton Hoo estate near Woodbridge after she became curious about several mounds on her land. Mr Brown was paid 30 shillings a week while working on the excavation and lodged with Edith's chauffeur. In May 1939, Mr Brown and ...