A PANDEMIC, BUT WE LACKED A FULL PICTURE OF THE BREADTH AND DEPTH OF ITS. She along with Basil Brown played by actor Ralph Fiennes who worked on the excavation of The Great Ship Burial and his assistants Bert Fuller and Tom Sawyer along with the Ipswich museum joined forces and started excavating Edith’s estate. all the analysis into a story that is coherent, integrated, and forward looking. Frank and Edith Pretty's son Robert was born in 1930.įrank Pretty died due to stomach cancer when Edith Pretty's son Robert was just 4 years old. When Edith Pretty’s son Robert Pretty got a bit older she asked for help from the Ipswich museum to tell her what was on her estate. In July 1937, Edith met Vincent Redstone, a local historian, and spoke about burial mounds on her estate, which she became increasingly curious about. The Dig Addeddate 01:43:51 Identifier dig20200404 Scanner Internet Archive HTML5 Uploader 1.6. Edith and Frank finally married a year after her father passed away in 1925. Based on a true story, The Dig retells the story of how a widow and a self-taught archaeologist unearthed an Anglo-Saxon burial ship on a private plot of land in Suffolk, UK, in 1939. He proposed to Edith on her eighteenth birthday, but she had to decline because her father disapproved of their relationship. Her husband, Frank Pretty, knew her for many years before they got married. Discover the true story behind Netflix's The Dig and the awe-inspiring discovery at Sutton-Hoo.As WWII looms, a wealthy widow (Carey Mulligan) hires an amate. According to the British Museum, Edith Pretty was born in 1883 came from a wealthy family and inherited the Sutton Hoo estate.

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