Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), a widow of some taste and renown, has hired a local named Basil Brown ( Ralph Fiennes) to help her locate any potential findings.

Behind a large manor in Suffolk, there are a number of jutting, earthen mounds that suggest the possibility of ancient artifacts buried beneath the soil. Britain stands on the verge of war, as the RAF planes constantly buzzing past can attest. The year is 1939, the countryside is English, the upper lips are most definitely stiff. Though they think at first that they'd uproot something from the Viking era, in reality, Pretty and Brown found something much older, a burial ship from the 7th century, the Dark Ages of the Anglo-Saxons that would change much of what Britons knew about their own history.A quick methadone hit for anyone still experiencing Merchant-Ivory withdrawal symptoms, The Dig (streaming on Netflix starting January 29th) is a throwback to a bygone era in more ways than one. With World War II looming and the vast majority of England's professional archeologists tasked with protecting and preserving Britain's museums, she turns to Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes), an amateur excavator to dig up the multiple mounds on her property. The Dig stars Carey Mulligan as Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow who's raising her pre-teen son on a vast country estate. Hundreds of years later, in 1939, two amateur archeologists would dig up a mound on a hunch and unearth what today is called the most 'extraordinary archaeological discovery ever made in Britain.' The new Netflix film The Dig recreates the true story behind the treasure hunt that would upend almost everything historians thought they knew of the Dark Ages. Inside a chamber in the center of the ship, they placed weapons adorned with gems, gold jewelry, armor, and coins, and in the center of their treasures they lay the body of their king.

long wooden ship out of a nearby river into a field in Suffolk, on the east coast of England. 1400 years ago, Anglo-Saxons hauled an 82 ft.

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