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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...

Although, Simon Stone was unable to shoot at Sutton Hoo itself, he did shoot 80% of the film nearby at Snape, Iken, Butley and in Rendlesham Forest. Ipswich Museum gets a bit part as itself and the River Deben was shot briefly at Ramsholt but mostly at Butley Creek. The excavation of the mounds was brilliantly recreated in Surrey and I defy anyone to spot the join between the two locations. It is so well done that you can feel a tingle of excitement as the ship gets uncovered and the treasures start coming to light. Lily James as Peggy Preston exploring the Suffolk countryside at Rendlesham i...

Although, Simon Stone was unable to shoot at Sutton Hoo itself, he did shoot 80% of the film nearby at Snape, Iken, Butley and in Rendlesham Forest. Ipswich Museum gets a bit part as itself and the River Deben was shot briefly at Ramsholt but mostly at Butley Creek. The excavation of the mounds was brilliantly recreated in Surrey and I defy anyone to spot the join between the two locations. It is so well done that you can feel a tingle of excitement as the ship gets uncovered and the treasures start coming to light. Lily James as Peggy Preston exploring the Suffolk countryside at Rendlesham i...

The Sutton Hoo excavation of 1939 was as important to Britain's creation myth as Wood Quay would be to Dublin's. Unlike Wood Quay, however, the large burial mounds near Suffolk in south-east England were carefully and respectfully approached, with landowner Edith Pretty initiating the archaeological dig at her own expense.

On Demand: All Creatures Great and Small (BritBox, from Thu) Channel 5 recently revived the much-loved tales based on Alf Wight's books If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen To a Vet, written under the more famous pseudonym of James Herriot and based on his experiences as a vet in the Yorkshire Dales during the 1930s and 1940s. The series was both gentle and charming, but not a patch on the original TV adaptation, which began on the BBC in 1978 and ran, one and off, until Christmas 1990. Now all 90 episodes are being made available to stream so, if you watched the revamp, you ca...