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Everything you need to know about The Dig

Wednesday 13 January 2021
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It was in Suffolk - not Egypt, Turkey or Greece - that one of the most significant archeological discoveries of all time took place. In 1939 amidst the shadow of World War II, a young widow named Edith Pretty contracted a local expert to dig up the mounds in her garden in Sutton Hoo, believing them to be part of a mass ancient graveyard. Yet as Netflix’s brilliant new film
The Dig dramatises, what they actually found was a huge, Anglo-Saxon longship, possibly the burial site of the ancient King Rædwald of East Anglia. ....

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The priceless bond that unearthed Britain's ship of gold

The priceless bond that unearthed Britain s ship of gold
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Edith Pretty is neither a household name nor considered a national treasure. But had it not been for her a wealthy, idiosyncratic widow with a ferocious sense of civic duty and patriotic pride Britain would have been denied one of its greatest national treasures.
A new Netflix film, The Dig, to be released later this month, tells the compelling story of how a lavish Anglo-Saxon ship buried in the grounds of Sutton Hoo, the Pretty family’s estate in South-East Suffolk, was unearthed just before the outbreak of World War II. ....

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