The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) ...

Simon Stone’s The Dig, now on Netflix, starring Carrey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, began its source material excavation in 2006. Producer Ellie Wood had then finished John Preston’s historical novel, ...

In the months between May and September 1939, as Britain edged closer to the growing threat of war with Germany, the residents of Sussex, in the Southeast of England were captivated by the events of ...

Edith Pretty was convinced that the mounds on her land in Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, held important archaeological secrets. In 1939, on the eve of the second world war, she was proven right as the sumptuous ...

In 1939, a magnificent discovery was made on the estate of Edith Pretty in Sutton Hoo, a small town near the eastern coast of England: A massive sixth-century ship was unearthed, its structure intact.