The Dig is the latest movie released by Netflix, which is a dramatic retelling of the Sutton Hoo archeological discovery of the late 1930s, which saw amateur archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) ...

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Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan provide true-life drama “The Dig” with honesty and emotional heft it surely would not have had without them. They play middle-aged “excavator” Basil Brown and rich, ...

In the months between May and September 1939, as Britain edged closer to the growing threat of war with Germany, the residents of Sussex, in the Southeast of England were captivated by the events of ...

Age is apparently nothing but a number to Netflix. The streaming giant is under fire for casting 35-year-old Carey Mulligan to play a 56-year-old character. The 2021 Golden Globe nominee for ...

A suitcase belonging to the landowner who played a prime role in the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial ship gives an insight into her "status and character as a woman in Edwardian England". Sutton ...

Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes head the cast of 'The Dig,' Simon Stone's period drama about the excavation of an ancient burial site on an English estate as World War II looms, also featuring Lily ...

A travel case belonging to Edith Pretty, containing more than 100 items, is now on display in Suffolk. The early 20th-century travel case has been put on show at the National Trust's Sutton Hoo, ...

A blue plaque has been unveiled to honour the woman behind the discoveries at an Anglo-Saxon burial ground. A ship and items believed to belong to East Anglia's 7th Century ruler King Rædwald were ...

In 1939 a series of mounds at Sutton Hoo in England revealed their astounding contents: the remains of an Anglo-Saxon funerary ship and a huge cache of seventh-century royal treasure. In southern ...

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A sculpture of the warrior's helmet is located at the site. The remnants of the original were pieced together and are at the British Museum in London A blue plaque has been unveiled to honour the ...