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Above Ralph Fiennes as Basil Brown, Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty, and Archie Barnes as her son Robert, at the recreated Sutton Hoo mound in The Dig. right Ben Chaplin and Lily James play archaeologists Stuart and Peggy Piggott.

A Riveting Tale

Netflix has just released The Dig, a major film about the Sutton Hoo excavation. Lindsay Fulcher unearths the story of how Basil Brown uncovered the splendid Anglo-Saxon ship burial and illuminated the so-called ‘Dark Ages’.