The Dig

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A moving tale of mortality and the passage of time…affecting…Preston is subtle but precise in his characterizations, and meticulous with period detail.”— Publishers Weekly

Yes. Among the 18 ancient burial mounds on Edith Pretty's 526-acre Sutton Hoo estate was a 7th-century Anglo-Saxon ship, which is thought to have been the final resting place of King Rædwald of East Anglia (c. 560 - c. 624). Unlike in the movie, the discovery of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship in Mound 1 didn't come as a complete surprise. In real life, Basil Brown had discovered similar iron ship rivets and a smaller boat in Mound 2 the previous year (not shown in the movie). These people were not just marauding barterers," says Phillips. "They had culture! They had art! They had money!" The plane crashBeautifully written...there is a true and wonderful ending to the story' - Bill Wyman, Mail on Sunday Brueggemann, Tom (15 February 2021). " 'Croods 2′ and 'Wonder Woman 1984' Show VOD Rebound as 'Barb and Star' Makes Strong Debut". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 16 February 2021 . Retrieved 15 February 2021. Southern Charm' Star Olivia Flowers Shades 'RHOBH' Star Crystal Kung Minkoff After BravoCon: "I Thought She Was Rude" In the novel, Peggy tells how the English cellist Beatrice Harrison was recorded and broadcast during the 1920s and 1930s playing in her garden to the accompaniment of nightingales singing (pp. 171–2). Her account appears to be in homage to the poem "The Nightingale Broadcasts" by Robert Saxton, which won the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry in 2001. Later, where Saxton has "a nightingale cadenza, which gargled and trilled from the oak leaves", Peggy's voice tells of their "long gurgling trills" (p. 196). This theme appears to draw on Harrison's autobiography, first published in 1985. Harrison appeared in the 1943 British film The Demi-Paradise, as herself, playing while nightingales sing during a BBC radio broadcast. [17] Adaptations [ edit ]

The ship itself likely looked a bit less solid than it does in The Dig, though. By the time it was rediscovered the oak ship had decomposed and the outline of the ship was just compacted sand, the ghost of its frame having stained the soil. John Preston was for many years chief television critic for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. [1] He is also the nephew of one of the excavators of Sutton Hoo, Mrs. Peggy Piggott (wife of Stuart Piggott, afterward Edinburgh Professor of Archaeology), born Cecily Margaret Preston (1912–1994), but later known to the archaeological world as Margaret Guido. [2] However, by his own account Preston only became aware of the story surrounding the excavation around 2004, and therefore the content is not derived directly from Mrs. Piggott's testimony. a b "Longlists, 2021 EE British Academy Film Awards". British Academy Film Awards. 4 February 2021. Archived from the original on 6 February 2021 . Retrieved 4 February 2021. John Preston attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire from 1967 to 1971. [1] He worked as the Arts Editor of The Evening Standard and The Sunday Telegraph. He was The Sunday Telegraph 's television critic for ten years and one of its chief feature writers. [2]

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Armstrong, Neil (27 January 2021). "The buried ship found on an English estate". BBC. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021 . Retrieved 31 January 2021. Blakemore, Erin (29 January 2021). "Why this famed Anglo-Saxon ship burial was likely the last of its kind". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 29 January 2021 . Retrieved 29 January 2021. He returned in 1939. He was three days into a dig in the biggest mound on the estate – which, Brown later recalled, "felt rather like digging into a small mountain" – using a coal shovel, pastry brushes and a penknife, his assistant John Jacobs found a rivet. Brown dashed over, nearly shoving Jacobs to the ground in his haste, and eventually the men uncovered the ship's outline. At the Woodbridge Flower Fete (festival) in 1937, Edith Pretty talked to Vincent B. Redstone, a member of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology, about potentially excavating the mounds on her Sutton Hoo estate. In July of that year, a formal meeting was held during which Pretty, Redstone, and the curator of the Ipswich Corporation Museum, Guy Maynard, discussed the possibility of excavation. Maynard recommended local archaeologist Basil Brown (played by Ralph Fiennes in The Dig movie) to find out what, if anything, lay beneath the strange mounds on Pretty's land.