Ivan remembers the excitement: They were finding a lot of things there - and I remember when the experts came in and took things over. I thought the film was very good generally - it wasn t all completely as it was. I remember Mrs Pretty as being much older than she was in the film (Carey Mulligan who plays her is 35 and Mrs Pretty was 56 at the time of the discovery). Ivan Jacobs enjoyed the film The Dig, but felt Carey Mulligan was much younger than the real Mrs Pretty - and remembered the incident in the film when Basil Brown, played by Ralph Fiennes, was buried alive in a landslip.
All the developments are now ready for use - including the new tower overlooking the burial mounds. However, when that will open depends on what rules are being imposed for social distancing, because there are narrow staircases leading to the top. Mr Collinson said many visitors - particularly if they were making a long journey to visit a property - welcomed the chance to book in advance, so they knew for certain when they could get into the exhibitions at a time when they were not too busy. But while Sutton Hoo would inevitably be the main focus for many visitors, other sites in Suffolk should also benefit.
All the developments are now ready for use - including the new tower overlooking the burial mounds. However, when that will open depends on what rules are being imposed for social distancing, because there are narrow staircases leading to the top. Mr Collinson said many visitors - particularly if they were making a long journey to visit a property - welcomed the chance to book in advance, so they knew for certain when they could get into the exhibitions at a time when they were not too busy. But while Sutton Hoo would inevitably be the main focus for many visitors, other sites in Suffolk should also benefit.
Netflix s The Dig has been slammed as sexist for reducing an experienced archaeologist to a bumbling, deferential, sidekick to her husband . The film depicts the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and stars Ralph Fiennes as self-taught local archaeologist Basil Brown and Lily James as 27-year-old excavator Peggy Piggott. Mrs Piggott was the wife of archaeologist Stuart Piggott - played by Ben Chaplin - who arrived at the Suffolk site with imperious academic Charles Phillips (Ken Stott). During the dig at the burial mounds, Mrs Piggott - who was two years younger than her husband - unearthed with her trowel a small gold and garnet pyramid, the first exciting glimpse of bejewelled treasure.
BBC News image copyrightNetflix/BBC It s late summer in England, 1939. The sight and sound of RAF planes flying overhead is an ominous reminder that war looms. The prospect of conflict troubles sensitive Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a young widow who owns a chunk of rural Suffolk on which large mounds of earth rise up in a flat field as if the land is infested by a gang of gargantuan moles. The grassy knolls were the reason she and her late husband bought the property, they wanted to explore them together. Well, best laid plans… she says a little too breezily.