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And, ahead of the film's release, curator of Early Medieval Europe Collections at the museum, Dr Sue Brunning, spoke to Express.co.uk about the secrets uncovered. She said: “The most famous artefact is the helmet and that is the piece that is seen on the front of textbooks. “It is basically an extraordinary iron helmet that has a very iconic face on the front of it with a moustache and black eyes. “But there is also loads of gold and garnet work, they used a very intricate technique that involves the inlaying of small red gemstones. Archaeologist Basil Brown made a stunning find in ...

There is a gentle, old-world romance about the Netflix film The Dig, directed by Simon Stone, off a screenplay by Moira Buffini. Long tracking shots, wistful frames of the English countryside and some unforgettable visual compositions abound in this film that glides, but never really soars. Then again, it leaves you with the sense that soaring was perhaps never its intention in the first place. The film is based on John Preston’s 2007 novel of the same name (which itself is a literary reimagination of the real-life archaeological discoveries at Sutton Hoo in England, just before World War ...

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The Dig: Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown 28 January, 2021 01:00 Possessor: Andrea Riseborough as Tanya Vos THE DIG (Cert 12, 111 mins, streaming from January 29 exclusively on Netflix, Drama/Romance/War) Starring: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Johnny Flynn, Lily James, Ben Chaplin, Monica Dolan, Ken Stott. TERMINALLY-ill widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) is convinced that treasures lie beneath the surface of the grassy burial mounds on her estate in Suffolk. With the Second World War beckoning, she hires pipe-smoking archaeologist Ba...