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Sutton Hoo hero – portrayed on screen by Ralph Fiennes - lived 89 years in the same Suffolk village. We visit the place he called home. suffolknews.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from suffolknews.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
We still had energy but not the time to do so. Instead, I took him to Sutton Hoo by car. Although it was a warm day, Basil wore his jacket, tie, waistcoat and cap as usual. Not smelly at all. He remembered that in the first season, the summer of 1938, he explored three quite small mounds, finding that all had been robbed. He found little other than pottery, minor forerunners of what he brought to light in 1939. In the main mound it became clear to him that the grave had been undisturbed (if only by a few inches) and that he was tackling almost single-handedly a find of national even international importance. ....
We still had energy but not the time to do so. Instead, I took him to Sutton Hoo by car. Although it was a warm day, Basil wore his jacket, tie, waistcoat and cap as usual. Not smelly at all. He remembered that in the first season, the summer of 1938, he explored three quite small mounds, finding that all had been robbed. He found little other than pottery, minor forerunners of what he brought to light in 1939. In the main mound it became clear to him that the grave had been undisturbed (if only by a few inches) and that he was tackling almost single-handedly a find of national even international importance. ....
Moving onto other mounds, he sadly only unearthed smaller artefacts such as Saxon pottery, an iron axe, ship rivets and glass. It wasn’t until May 1939 that Basil, with the help of Edith’s gardener John Jacobs, gamekeeper William Spooner and estate worker Bert Fuller, worked together and began digging a trench. At first, the group found a large iron rivet, but after hours of meticulous excavating, soon realised the enormity of what was actually beneath them. What did they find at Sutton Hoo? What Basil Brown and his diggers had uncovered were the remains of a 27-metre-long Anglo-Saxon ship. ....
“The Dig” (PG) and a half THE new year is firmly planted in history and people might be forgiven for wondering what it will bring. That, dear readers, is a statement of the bleeding obvious by a movie reviewer who’s wondering what the new year will bring to the big screen. It begins with “The Dig”, filmed around the place in the south of England where in 1938 a story that began more than a millennium ago, rose from the grave. Edith Pretty, the widow of a battalion commander in the Suffolk Regiment, lived on an estate at Sutton Hoo where there was a small number of barrows. ....