The circular ones at Sutton Hoo have been visible for centuries, and many have been plundered of their valuables, but as the clever Mr. The snooty Charles Phillips (Ken Stott) from the local museum is more than happy to slap that label on him as well.īurial mounds are mysteries hiding in plain sight. He’s clearly a knowledgeable archaeologist (and a decent astronomer to boot) but owing to a lack of formal education he refers to himself as an excavator. The film opens with Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) agreeing to do some digging into the ancient mounds that dot the property of widow Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan). If your interest in scientific-discovery biopics runs toward the likes of Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.Tells the story of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, a 6th-century burial site in East Anglia in the East of England.

As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind.

THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMESĪ literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II

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