“The Dig”
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I have just watched the excellent 2021 film The Dig, about the 1939 discovery of the amazing treasures of Sutton Hoo. It stars Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan and I thoroughly enjoyed it…but then, out of interest, I read more online. And lo! Yet again the truth had been tampered with from the moment the…
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Returning to Sutton Hoo
“The Dig”, Anglo-Saxons, Basil Brown, Beowulf, British Museum, Bromeswell Bucket, burial mounds, cafe, Carey Mulligan, cornish pasty, Deben, Edith Pretty, exhibition hall, Greek, National Trust, Orford Castle, Raedwald, Ralph Fiennes, Richard III Society, Scandinavia, Seamus Heaney, ship burial, Suffolk, Sutton Hoo, viewing platform, Woodbridge, WuffingsThe Mid Anglia branch of the Richard III society met at Woodbridge railway station and drove to the National Trust’s Sutton Hoo. Sutton Hoo, made famous this year by the release of Netflix’s “The Dig”, starring Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan, is the site of the Royal burial ground of East Anglia’s 6th, 7th and…
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Originally posted on Mid Anglia Group, Richard III Society: … Ipswich had a Roman villa, which is now in the back garden of Tranmere Grove, a short road just north of the allotments railway line. Time Team came to visit it in 2004.
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