![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |