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After The Dig: how the discoveries at Sutton Hoo rewrote our cultural history


The restored iron helmet is perhaps the most recognisable face of the Anglo-Saxon period
“These people were not just marauding barbarians. They had culture! They had art!” So exalts Cambridge archeologist Charles Phillips, as he contemplates the treasure trove his team has just unearthed from an Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk.
This is a scene from The Dig – Australian director Simon Stone’s faithful fictionalisation of one of the most famous excavations in British history, out on Netflix now – and it goes some way to encapsulating the significance of the discoveries for the history of art and culture in this country. In the summer of 1939, a self-taught local archaeologist called Basil Brown (played with exquisitely sensitive surliness by Ralph Fiennes in the film) brushed back the earth to reveal the shape of an early seventh-century ship, and concealed within it, a burial chamber full of the most extraordinary artifacts.  ....

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