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An excavator and his team discover a wooden ship from the Dark Ages while digging up a burial ground on a woman’s estate.
Q-tips say: Yes, we did enjoy this movie.
SPOILER ALERT: Mrs. Q says: Is it based on a true story?
Yes. The Dig tells the true story of English landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan), who hired archeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the mysterious mounds on her Sutton Hoo estate in southeast Suffolk in 1937. The Sutton Hoo artefacts are now housed in the collections of the British Museum, London, while the mound site is in the care of the National Trust.