Calling in a small team of his own which includes a married couple Stuart and Peggy Piggot ( Ben Chaplin & Lily James) and Peggy honoured to find that she has only been called to work on the dig because she’s slim and light on her feet rather than the portly mass of pastry and beer that Phillips is and risks damaging the Anglo Saxon burial chamber they have found.īut The Dig is far more than a gentle period drama and is far more about the fragility of the human condition. What Brown uncovers became known as Sutton Hoo one of the most important archaeological finds of the last century and it’s not long before the dig is commandeered by a one of the UK’s leading archaeologists of the time Charles Phillips (Ken Stott) a stuffed shirt of a man, pompous and pumped up with his own importance regarding Brown as a mere amateur. ![]() It’s an England of an entirely different era whereas these days that pays for a sweat shop of kids working 100hr weeks to make trainers – which is terrible because, let’s be fair, working those sort of hours means the quality suffers – ( You’re fired! – Ed).īrown is a humble but dedicated man, passionate and single minded about his work and both Edith and Brown are correct in their gut feeling about what might be there although unlike our Editor who when he had separated from his wife during renovations on his house wouldn’t let the builders dig up the mysterious mound in his garden (‘ You’re definitely fired!’ – Ed). In the immense grounds of her home there are large mounds and she has a feeling that something of archaeological value is there and she agrees to pay Brown the princely sum of £2 a week. Set in 1939 Suffolk on the verge of World War II it has Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes ) a small time archaeologist though he describes himself as the far less grandiose, ‘excavator’ calling at the huge country home of widow Edith Pretty ( Carey Mulligan) and her young son Archie (Robert Pretty). As it is The Dig is a far more pleasurable viewing experience. However, beyond the basics, The Dig takes creative license with the facts.Frankly if we wanted to watch a film about a group of the fashion challenged underclass scrabbling about in the mud looking for lost jewellery we would have watched CCTV footage of Gemma Collins wading around in a mud bath looking for her hoop earrings. Although the courts decided the treasure belonged to Edith Pretty, she gifted the discovery to the British Museum before dying three years later, and Basil Brown remained unacknowledged in the Sutton Hoo discovery until recently. The ultimate fates of the characters in The Dig’s bittersweet ending are also largely unaltered. The real-life find at Sutton Hoo was just as staggering as it appears in The Dig and attracted just as much attention from museums, archaeologists, and journalists. Related: One Night In Miami True Story: How Much is Real & What The Movie Made Up ![]() As word of the find spread, Charles Phillips (Ken Stott) and his team of archaeologists took over the excavation under the urgency of the looming threat of World War II. He unearthed a find no one expected, an intact 6th-century ship burial that redefined historical knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons. In 1939, Edith Pretty (played in the movie by Carey Mulligan) hired self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her land. The movie sticks to the truth with the foundations of the story, and most of the characters in The Dig movie are based on real people involved in the excavation.
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