The film brings us lush viewes of the Suffolk countryside, and a pleasing complimentary violin-based soundtrack, and as is shown by the trailer, they unearth a ship buried under the mound, festooned with a ton of trinkets, along with doing battle with the elements, as they get torrential rain at one point. The Dig begins in 1938, in Suffolk, where Edith Pretty ( Carey Mulligan, Collateral) had learned there were approximately 18 ancient burial mounds on the Sutton Hoo estate, near to her home, so she summons M ( Ralph Fiennes)… sorry, archaeologist Basil Brown, to get stuck in, and this film tells the largely untold story of his excavation of the site, since his work wasn’t at all recognised for many years after.īut it’s a race against time, partly because she has an underlying health condition (she had pneumatic fever as a child), and partly because 1939 and World War II is just around the corner, since that’s bound to knacker any excavations, and it’s certainly stopped the British Museum getting involved from an early stage, hence why Basil’s called in.

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