Netflix’s The Dig
The very thought of this new film thrilled me, and I wasn’t disappointed. The story of the discovery and excavation in 1939 of the 7th-century Sutton Hoo ship burial in Suffolk is brilliantly told in Robert Preston’s novel, The Dig (2007). Preston is the nephew of one of the lead characters in the celebrated excavation, Peggy Piggott. The film, not surprisingly, weaves in more drama than was perhaps true at the time but does great justice to the main personalities in the exca
