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ADVERTISEMENT When he left the farm, he worked odd jobs while pursuing his passion for archaeology and astronomy. By the time he was sent to Edith's he had already written his first book about astrology and was working as a freelance archaeologist for the museum.  Basil and his assistants began digging up three of the mounds in the summer of 1938 and found knives, an ax head, bronze fragments, textiles and some human remains.  Then in 1939, they decided to work on the biggest mound. Under the mound they found the 80-foot Anglo-Saxon burial ship. The sheer size of the ship suggested that it ...

Author: I've spent half a century (yikes) writing for radio and print—mostly print. I hope to be still tapping the keys as I take my last breath. The ritual burial site of a king 14 centuries ago lay undiscovered in Britain until just before World War II. What archaeologists found when the tomb was excavated caused a rewriting of history books. The iconic Sutton Hoo helmet was badly corroded when found and has been reconstructed. A King Is Buried The people who lived in Eastern England during the Dark Ages (the fifth to the tenth centuries CE) left no written record of their lives. That mea...

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...

The priceless bond that unearthed Britain's ship of gold Brian Viner For The Daily Mail © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Edith Pretty is neither a household name nor considered a national treasure. But had it not been for her — a wealthy, idiosyncratic widow with a ferocious sense of civic duty and patriotic pride — Britain would have been denied one of its greatest national treasures. A new Netflix film, The Dig, to be released later this month, tells the compelling story of how a lavish Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the grounds of Sutton Hoo, the Pretty family’...