It certainly captured the essence of what the filmmakers were looking for.
Director Simon Stone said: “You go to Suffolk once and visit the estuary lands and you see such a unique landscape, like a world that you just don't recognise as quintessentially English, and so I thought to myself this is a real opportunity to show a side of England that you don't usually see.
“As you see, it's constantly through the film. We keep cutting back to shots that were shot in the environment where it took place.”
The old brick structure on Boyton Marshes is used in The Dig. Picture: SCREEN SUFFOLK