Perhaps the most dramatic archaeological find in British history, 2021 Netflix movie The Dig reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk.
Based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, it stars Carey Mulligan as landowner Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as local self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown, as well as Lily James, Ken Stott and Ben Chaplin.
At first only Brown believes that the mounds on Pretty’s rural estate could be Anglo-Saxon rather than the more common Viking era. Inevitably he is proved right, as their dig unveils the burial site of King Raedwald, his treasure and the remains of his ship.
The film received five nominations for the British Academy Film Awards, including one for Outstanding British Film.
Today, the treasure is in the British Museum, but you can visit the National Trust site that inspired the story and nearby filming locations for The Dig.
