on our website and also on the news channel. that is it from the show. thank you so much for watching. bbc news bringing you different stories from across the uk the painstaking the creation of the burial ship. using tools anglo saxon shipbuilders would have used, the latest recruits apprentice joiner is. have used, the latest recruits apprenticejoiner is. you are just massively appreciative really of craft and what they did and how they engineered these things to go on the sea. since its discovery in 1939 bait the local archaeologist basil brown the story of the boat and its extraordinary treasures has enthralled the world. 600 ad ship is thought to be the final resting place
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The True Story Behind Netflix s The Dig
How a medium helped to find buried Anglo-Saxon treasure, plus all the other stuff the film doesn t tell you Larry Horricks/Netflix
A thoughtful reconstruction of an archaeological dig somewhere in deepest Suffolk feels like quite unlikely material for one of the first big Netflix hits of 2021, but
The Dig has turned out to be exactly that.
Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James and Johnny Flynn feature in the film based on John Preston s 2007 novel, also called
The Dig, which follows the excavation of burial mounds at the Sutton Hoo estate in 1938 and 1939. What started as a small investigation into mounds on land which had been farmed for centuries turned up the most extraordinary archaeological find of the century in Britain, and added a new set of national symbols to the English imagination.