Nostalgia laid on with a trowel in The Dig
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.
Source: independent.ie