The new Netflix film The Dig tells the story of Basil Brown and Edith Pretty as they work to uncover what has been called "the greatest single discovery in the history of British Archaeology”! Before you watch the film, why not learn about the archaeology behind Sutton Hoo so you can drop the hard core facts during your watch party!

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Sutton Hoo is a site located in the county of Suffolk in the southeast of England. Basil Brown’s first season of excavation took place in 1938, where a few smaller mounds were excavated. But nothing he found that year would prepare him for what he was to find in the summer of the next one...The summer of 1939, Brown turned his attentions to the largest barrow on the site, known as Mound 1, and after a few exploratory trenches, he came across a layer of hard soil, stained with rust, containing rivets at regular intervals. Brown soon realised that he had found the impression and oxidised rivets of a ship. The excavations showed the ship to be a mastless rowboat measuring over 80 feet long with the capacity to hold 40 oarsmen! In the burial chamber, they found 41 items of solid gold like belt buckles and shoulder clasps, weapons, remains of a shield, gold and garnet jewellery, tonnes of containers and metal bowls, imported silver, silverware inscribed in Greek, a bronze bowl from the Middle East, drinking horns, a socalled purse that did actually contain coins inside from all across Europe, as well as the very famous Sutton Hoo Helmet! With ties to Beowulf, and AngloSaxon King Raedwald, who do you think this ship burial belonged to?

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Resources:

Antiquity Editorial June 2019
https://wwwcambridgeorg.libproxy.uc... Britannica Academic: Sutton Hoo https://academicebcom.libproxy.ucl.... 1.
Voyage to the Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo Calvin B. Kendall Peter S. Wells
The Enigmatic Sutton Hoo ShipBurial: Fresh Insights from Assemblage Theory Georgina Pitt Parergon, Volume 36, Number 1, 2019, pp. 129
British Museum : An Introduction to Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...
British Museum: The AngloSaxon Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collect...

National Geographic: The Ghostly Treasure Ship of Sutton Hoo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/hi...
Niels Bonde & FransArne Stylegar (2016) Between Sutton Hoo and Oseberg – dendrochronology and the origins of the ship burial tradition, Danish Journal of Archaeology, 5:12, 1933, DOI: 10.1080/21662282.2016.1245885
Why England’s Sutton Hoo Burial Remains One of the Greatest Archaeological Finds https://www.artnews.com/feature/sutto...

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British Museum By Eric Pouhier Own work, CC BYSA 3.0
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Helmet in Museum: Steven Zucker, CC BYNCSA 2.0
Helmet Detail: Steven Zucker, CC BYNCSA 2.0
Sutton Hoo: By Alex Healing CC BY 2.0
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Sutton Hoo Map: By Amitchell125 at English Wikipedia, CC BYSA 3.0
Helmet Replica By Gernot Keller CC BYSA 2.5
Burial Chamber reconstruction By Gernot Keller CC BYSA 2.5
Swedish Helmet from Vendel I Swedish History Museum http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid...., CC BY 2.5

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