Edith Pretty, a widowed and sickly landowner, hires self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown, because she wants to know what’s inside of the mounds at her lawn. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. The Dig is the novelisation of the real events which took place at the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial excavation in Surrey, England, on the eve of the Second World War. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure.
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. 'An enthralling story of love and loss' Robert Harris Portrayed by Lily James in The Dig, Peggy was an educated archaeologist and worked with her husband. A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. She was born Cecily Margaret Preston, but, after marriage, people knew her as Peggy Piggott.
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