2/14/2024 0 Comments Download margaret preston the digThe discovery of the Anglo Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in the Deben valley hardly needs the attentions of a novelist to make it any more dramatic than it was. As history goes into overdrive around them, and those drawn together at Sutton Hoo become involved in their own emotional upheavals, gradually, painstakingly, with many setbacks and a few blinding revelations, one of the most important, enigmatic and beautiful archaeological discoveries of modern times is laid bare. When local landowner, Edith Pretty, employs archaeologist, Basil Brown to excavate a series of large earth mounds on her land, little can any of them know that they are about to re-illuminate the Dark Ages. In the summer of 1939, as Britain prepares for war with air-raid drills and trench digging in Hyde Park, in the depths of rural Suffolk, an excavation of a very different kind is about to shake up Europe’s perception of its history just as much as the impending war.
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