![]() Phillips wants to send all the artefacts to the British Museum, but Edith, concerned about war raids in London, asserts her rights. Brown discovers a Merovingian Tremissis, a small gold coin of Late Antiquity, and Phillips declares the site to be of major historical significance. Brown is demoted to only keep the site in order, but Edith intervenes and he resumes digging. News of the discovery soon spreads, and Cambridge archaeologist Charles Phillips arrives, declares the site to be of national importance, and takes over the dig by order of the Office of Works.Īs World War II approaches, Phillips brings in a large team, including Peggy Piggott, who uncovers proof that it is Anglo-Saxon in origin. Prominent local archaeologist James Reid Moir attempts to join the dig but is rebuffed Edith instead hires her cousin Rory Lomax to join the project. Meanwhile, Edith struggles with her health, warned by her doctor to avoid stress.īrown is astonished to uncover iron rivets from a ship, suggesting that it is the burial site of someone of tremendous distinction, such as a king. She supports his jobs as excavator despite them being low wage. However, he does not become unfaithful to his wife, and we see that they are an amicable couple. Meanwhile, he spends more time with Edith, a widow, and her young son Robert, finding common interest in archaeology and astronomy with them. One day the trench collapses on him, but they dig him out in time. Working with assistants from Pretty's estate, Brown slowly excavates the more promising of the mounds. ![]() They ignore Brown, who left school aged 12, when he suggests the mounds could be Anglo-Saxon rather than the more common Viking era. His former employers try unsuccessfully to persuade Brown to work on a Roman villa they deem more important. At first, she offers the same money he received from the Ipswich Museum, the agricultural wage, but he says it is inadequate so she ups her offer by 12% to £2 a week (approximately £120 in 2020), which he accepts. In 1939, Suffolk landowner Edith Pretty hires local self-taught archaeologist-excavator Basil Brown to tackle the large burial mounds at her rural estate in Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge. The film received positive reviews from critics and received five nominations for the British Academy Film Awards, including one for Outstanding British Film. It had a limited release on 14 January 2021, followed by streaming on Netflix on 29 January 2021. It stars Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Archie Barnes, and Monica Dolan. ![]() 8.5/10.The Dig is a 2021 British drama film directed by Simon Stone, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by John Preston, which reimagines the events of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England. Dark secrets in many senses are uncovered as the film progresses.ĭirectors: Andy and Ryan Tohill, working from a screenplay by Stuart Drennan have delivered a dark gem, The Field for the 21st Century. The Fairy Trr and the surrounding land is very much hallowed ground in this peasant society. Ronan accepts the elixir, sharing Seán's faith in the old ways. Seán makes a drink with berries picked from the Fairy Tree in the belief that it will restore his memory. A Beckettian Bog Western where the participants wallow in the mud searching for something which might not even be there. Maintaining the law with his boots, fists and a gun when necessary. Murphy, heavily bearded, always in rough plain clothes, a pistol at his hip, is more like a Sheriff. This film seems to be set in the border counties of Ireland, yet it is a not-Ireland, neither North or South. There is also violence from locals and the local police chief Murphy (Francis Magee). But the relationship between the three is an ongoing rollercoaster of emotions. Seán's daughter Roberta (Emily Taafe) also reluctantly accepts Ronan's presence, they had once been friends and perhaps more. At first the two clash violently but Ronan joins in the dig as he has no memory of the night of the murder due to being drunk. Seán (Lorcan Cranitch) is searching for his lost daughter, Ronan recently released from prison was convicted of her murder. A man is digging on the bog, sections staked out with flags. Ronan (Moe Dunford) returns to a dilapidated farmhouse which is adjacent to bogland. The Dig: This film deserves to be seen as Folk Horror due to how a Fairy Tree in a circle of stones influence the progression of its narrative. Reviewed by Pairic 9 / 10 Dark Murder Mystery
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