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Wednesday 13 January 2021 In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Open my cookie preferences. It was in Suffolk - not Egypt, Turkey or Greece - that one of the most significant archeological discoveries of all time took place. In 1939 amidst the shadow of World War II, a young widow named Edith Pretty contracted a local expert to dig up the mounds in her garden in Sutton Hoo, believing them to be part of a mass ancient graveyard. Yet as Netflix’s brilliant new film The Dig dramatises, what they actually found was a huge, Anglo-Saxon longship, poss...

Former milkman Basil Brown found 90ft long ship buried in the seventh century  Author discovered archaeologist Peggy Piggott was his aunt and wrote book The film based on his book, The Dig, is coming to Netflix on January 29  In the summer of 1939, a former milkman turned self-taught archaeologist called Basil Brown plunged a spade into the side of a large mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. He had been hired by Edith Pretty, the wealthy widow who owned the mound, to see if there was anything inside. Possibly he might find a few ancient bits and pieces, she thought, or maybe even something a li...

| UPDATED: 15:06, Wed, Jan 13, 2021 Link copied Sign up for FREE now and never miss the top Royal stories again. SUBSCRIBE Invalid email When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they'll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy Notice explains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsubscribe at any time. The Dig follows the story of a world-famous archaeological dig. Starring Ralph Fiennes, the film shows the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, but based o...

Scraping at the dirt, earth thick under his fingernails, amateur archeologist Basil Brown came across a section of hard earth. After further excavations, he found other patches stained with rust, and iron nails and rivets spread intermittently across the site.  Over several weeks, after a delicate and painsteaking operation, archologist Basil Brown saw the shape of a ship emerge from the ground in the Suffolk field.   He had discovered an 86ft Anglo-Saxon burial ship filled with a rich cargo of teasures. The discovery at Sutton Hoo in 1939 went on to become one of the most important archol...

'It was the most terrifying moment of my career!' the star said.  'I was responsible for getting the soil away from his face. As the cameras came down, all I could think was: 'Don't let me kill Ralph Fiennes!' It was just one of several tactics used by director Simon Stone to inject a real sense of urgency and adventure into his screen version of John Preston's historical novel. The book is a stirring fictionalised account of the famous 1939 excavation at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, where the royal burial ship of an Anglo-Saxon king was discovered by self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Fienne...