Netflix movie The Dig immortalises extraordinary Sutton Hoo discovery – NEWS.com.au

For more than a millennium, burial mounds lay untouched on the Suffolk landscape in the English countryside.The occasional robber may have had a stab but the mysteries of what remained beneath the earth was lost to time. Until 1939 when the landowner of the estate on which these mounds sat, Edith Pretty, commissioned an archaeological team to find out.
What they found is now known as the Sutton Hoo burial site, an extraordinary archaeological discovery as significant as the Tutankhamun’s Tomb or…

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