Spectacular discoveries at Sutton Hoo

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🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 66 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.

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0:43.6	Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History magazine.
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0:58.2	I'm Ellie Corporn. Later this week on the 29th January, Netflix's new film The Dig is released.
1:05.6	It tells the story of the famous 1939 excavation of the early medieval ship burial at Sutton Hill,
1:12.2	in Suffolk, England. Our content director David Musgrove recently put in a call to the Sutton
1:19.0	Hill expert Martin Carver, whose lead excavation at the site from 1983 to 1993.
1:26.2	He wanted to get the full story of the extraordinary archaeological site and the real dig that inspired
1:31.7	the film. You can listen to an extended version of this interview, including Professor Carver's
1:37.2	memories of digging at Sutton Hill himself and his unorthodox, Gulfful geophysical prospecting
1:43.0	technique at historyextra.com forward slash Sutton hyphen, who hyphen extra?
1:51.2	So the first thing that I think would be good to talk about is basically to get a bit of an
1:57.4	introduction. So we're talking about Sutton Hill. Could you in the best way you can possibly do
2:04.9	attempt to introduce Sutton to us? What's the story of the place on how should we understand it?
2:12.3	Well the place itself is enchanting. It's a piece of rural Suffolk, a stretch of grassy terris
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