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The new Netflix film The Dig tells the story of Basil Brown and Edith Pretty as they work to uncover what has been called "the greatest single discovery in the history of British Archaeology”! Before you watch the film, why not learn about the archaeology behind Sutton Hoo so you can drop the hard core facts during your watch party! 🔴 SUBSCRIBE TO NEVER MISS A VIDEO https://www.youtube.com/c/digitwithraven?sub_confirmation=1 🔴 SUPPORT DIG IT WITH RAVEN https://www.patreon.com/digitwithraven WATCH NEXT ○ THE OLDEST KNOWN RECIPE IN THE WORLD https://youtu.be/RhRC8CRTx9U ○ Was King Tut's Curse Real? https://youtu.be/K9fvv8ekvBc Sutton Hoo is a site located in the county of Suffolk in the southeast of England. Basil Brown’s first season of excavation took place in 1938, where a few smaller mounds were excavated. But nothing he found that year would prepare him for what he was to find in the summer of the next one...The summer of 1939, Brown turned his attentions to the largest barrow on the site, known as Mound 1, and after a few exploratory trenches, he came across a layer of hard soil, stained with rust, containing rivets at regular intervals. Brown soon realised that he had found the impression and oxidised rivets of a ship. The excavations showed the ship to be a mastless rowboat measuring over 80 feet long with the capacity to hold 40 oarsmen! In the burial chamber, they found 41 items of solid gold like belt buckles and shoulder clasps, weapons, remains of a shield, gold and garnet jewellery, tonnes of containers and metal bowls, imported silver, silverware inscribed in Greek, a bronze bowl from the Middle East, drinking horns, a so-called purse that did actually contain coins inside from all across Europe, as well as the very famous Sutton Hoo Helmet! With ties to Beowulf, and Anglo-Saxon King Raedwald, who do you think this ship burial belonged to? ✅ Let's connect! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/digitwithraven TWITTER: https://twitter.com/digitwithraven FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/digitwithraven/ MY GEAR ○ Zoom H4N Pro audio recorder https://amzn.to/35SGJIe ○ Microphone https://amzn.to/3clFIuR ○ Teleprompter https://amzn.to/35QX1RW ○ Lighting https://amzn.to/35QIW7j ○ Camera: My phone! Resources: Antiquity Editorial June 2019 https://www-cambridge-org.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/core/journals/antiquity/article/editorial/321927E481DC0D750E05B59ABCA57A82 Britannica Academic: Sutton Hoo https://academic-eb-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/levels/collegiate/article/Sutton-Hoo/70524 1. Voyage to the Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo Calvin B. Kendall Peter S. Wells The Enigmatic Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: Fresh Insights from Assemblage Theory Georgina Pitt Parergon, Volume 36, Number 1, 2019, pp. 1-29 British Museum : An Introduction to Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/galleries/sutton-hoo-and-europe British Museum: The Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/death-and-memory/anglo-saxon-ship-burial-sutton-hoo National Geographic: The Ghostly Treasure Ship of Sutton Hoo https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/magazine/2017/01-02/sutton-hoo-england-anglo-saxon-treasure-ship/ Niels Bonde & Frans-Arne Stylegar (2016) Between Sutton Hoo and Oseberg – dendrochronology and the origins of the ship burial tradition, Danish Journal of Archaeology, 5:1-2, 19-33, DOI: 10.1080/21662282.2016.1245885 Why England’s Sutton Hoo Burial Remains One of the Greatest Archaeological Finds https://www.artnews.com/feature/sutton-hoo-burial-why-is-it-important-1234581788/ Music: from Bensound.com ************** My top archaeology 101 book https://amzn.to/2EcgVtQ ************** Images: Abandoned tube station By Pencefn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 British Museum By Eric Pouhier - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 Herbert Maryon By Maryon's family CC BY-SA 4.0 Burial Mound 2 By Dr Steven Plunkett - Own work, CC BY-SA 2.5 Helmet Fragment By Geni - photo by user:geni, CC BY-SA 4.0 Helmet in Museum: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Helmet Detail: Steven Zucker, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Sutton Hoo: By Alex Healing CC BY 2.0 Newspaper: Archant Archives Archive photos: https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/suttonhoo_var_2004/gallery_mound1.cfm?CFID=01b8bf9c-ab20-4c78-99bc-59464c9cc4c6&CFTOKEN=0 Sutton Hoo Map: By Amitchell125 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 Helmet Replica By Gernot Keller CC BY-SA 2.5 Burial Chamber reconstruction By Gernot Keller CC BY-SA 2.5 Swedish Helmet from Vendel I- Swedish History Museum http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=109204, CC BY 2.5 **** Full disclaimer because I love you all. Some of these links are affiliate. If you purchase anything from these links I may earn a small commission. This really helps in supporting the channel, as I do not earn much from these videos. I am not promoting anything that I do not 100% recommend or would not use myself! Thanks so much for your support!