Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Ahead of the release of the new film The Dig, Professor Martin Carver discusses the real story of the 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo Ahead of the release of Netflix’s new film The Dig, about the famous 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo, Professor Martin Carver explains the fascinating history of the iconic burial site. He speaks to David Musgrove about the team that worked on the excavation, and the remarkable early medieval treasures they unearthed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.4	I'm Ellie Cawthorne. Later this week on the 29th of January, Netflix's new film The Dig is released.
1:11.1	It tells the story of the famous 1939 excavation of the early medieval ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.
1:17.7	Our content director, David Musgrove, recently put in a call to the Sutton Who expert, Martin Carver,
1:22.4	whose led excavations at the site from 1983 to 1993.
1:27.0	He wanted to get the full story of the extraordinary archaeological site and the real dig that inspired the film.
1:30.1	You can listen to an extended version of this interview, including Professor Carver's memories of digging at Sutton Who himself
1:36.4	and his unorthodox golfball geophysical prospecting technique at History Extra.com forward slash sutton-who hyphen extra.
1:48.0	So the first thing that I think would be good to talk about is basically to get a bit of an
1:54.6	introduction. So we're talking about Sutton Who. Could you, in the best way you can possibly do, attempt to introduce Sutton
2:03.7	Who to us? What's the story of the place on what, how should we understand it?
2:09.6	Well, the place itself is enchanting. It's a piece of rural Suffolk, a stretch of grassy terrace, and it looks over the River
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