Out of the dark ages: Netflix film The Dig ignites ballyhoo about Sutton Hoo

Here's an interesting review from today's Guardian, on the Netflix film "The Dig".

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ilm-the-dig-ignites-ballyhoo-about-sutton-hoo

The film seems to have ignited public interest in the 1939 find.

 

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It's on my list to watch. I remember that the Sutton Hoo discovery was one of the chapters in an anthology of archaeological discovery stories that I was given when I was about 9. For a long time, I wanted to be an archaeologist or museum curator when I grew up. I'm sure my interest in ancient coins and antiquities has its origin in those days.

 

Sutton Hoo has been on my radar for a long time. I took a 4th year course in Anglo-Saxon literature many years ago. We had to translate about one Anglo Saxon poem per week into modern English. Try that for yourself sometime. A great course but not great if you wanted to sleep. LOL I fell in love with the Dream of the Rood, the wanderer, and the seafarer. Of course we tackled Beowulf as well. This was before Seamus Heaney's masterful translation.

I am saving this show for when I have uploaded all of my lectures for this term. I am greatly looking forward to it.

“How often the lone-dweller anticipates
some sign, this Measurer’s mercy
— must always must—
mind-caring, along the ocean’s windings,
stirring rime-chill seas, hands as oars
many long whiles, treading the tracks of exile—
the way of the world an open book always.”

 

I just started watching it. Really Good!

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dig-on-netflix-watch.374661/

 

I managed to visit Sutton Hoo in 2003. The actual finds are in the British Museum so the site itself is a little bit of a disappointment. I think I saw that there have been improvements made to the museum since my visit though.

But if you plan on making a trip to Suffolk with Anglo-Saxons in mind, I highly recommend West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village

 

Btw - just had a friend share this. The first video on The page is an interview with Basil Brown in 1965

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/sutton_hoo_dig_collection/zs6xqfr

 

When I was young, I wanted to become a geologist, but my dad wanted me to become a doctor, so, of course, I became neither.

 

This showed up over the last couple of days on the BBC World Service website. (Disclaimer: haven't watched the dramatization. Cool, anyway.)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/the-reallife-sutton-hoo-dig/zs6xqfr

 

The whole story of the Anglo-Saxon tremisses with 37 coins being found and each one of them from a different mint was absolutely fascinating - as though different parts of the known realm were offering tribute in the form of a gold coin.

I watched the movie on Netflix last Sunday and have been binge researching the finds all week.