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Remarkably moving: The Dig reviewed

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

30 January 2021

9:00 AM

The Dig

Netflix

Just before the outbreak of the second world war a discovery was made in a riverside field at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. It was an immense buried boat, dating from the 7th century, and it yielded gilded treasure after gilded treasure, thereby wholly changing our understanding of the Dark Ages.

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