Sutton Hoo - The Archaeology Behind Netflix's The Dig | Dig it With Raven
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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!
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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?
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Resources:
Antiquity Editorial June 2019
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Britannica Academic: Sutton Hoo
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Voyage to the Other World: The Legacy of Sutton Hoo
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The Enigmatic Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial: Fresh Insights from
Assemblage Theory
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Parergon, Volume 36, Number 1, 2019, pp. 1-29
British Museum : An Introduction to Sutton Hoo
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British Museum: The Anglo-Saxon Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo
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National Geographic: The Ghostly Treasure Ship of Sutton Hoo
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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 www.artnews.com/feature/sutto...
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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
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Sutton Hoo: By Alex Healing CC BY 2.0
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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 mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid...., CC BY 2.5
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I’m so happy I’ve found your channel through looking for things about this film. You’re so charming and explain things so brilliantly! Time to binge your videos!
Ahh so happy you liked the video 😊😊
I live insanely close to Sutton hoo, I've been there tons of times as well. Suffolk forever woo
Ahhh I still need to go! Hopefully the UK lockdown ends soon so I can road trip out there
@@DigItWithRaven It`s on my post lockdown road trip . I lived near there in the late `80s .I visited but was a couple of decades early as the visitor centre was not built yet.
They are building a replica of the ship .. full size .I have purchased an iron rivet as a donation and to get my name against it.
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I trained as a boatbuilder in Suffolk and this era was my favourite period of history.
I am also happy to say I have no idea what BDE means.
As an archaeology buff, I love this! On my first trip abroad to Britain, our first stop after checking into our London hotel was walking the block to the British Museum. Luckily, they were doing renovation and had moved the Sutton Hoo display to the room closest to the front entrance, so this was the first thing I saw on the whole trip!
BTW, spiritualism had first come into prominence in the latter half of the 19th century, so it wasn’t really new by the 1930s. In fact, my great-great-grandmother became a Spiritualist minister in 1916, had her own Spiritualist church in Oklahoma City in the 1920s, and was a trance medium while her husband was a faith healer. (I just found out about her last year-fascinating woman!)
Awesome and thanks for all the background info! Several of us saw the Sutton Hoo exhibit in the British Museum when the Society of Historical Archaeology conference was in Leicester several years ago. Just an incredible find. We had a staff watch party of "The Dig" yesterday and the consensus was that it gets two (dirty) archaeology thumbs up!
Yay I’m glad there are watch parties happening!! Such a cool site, I’m glad it’s being celebrated in the way it is
Raven, great video!!! Your enthusiasm is contagious!!! I had previously read about this upcoming movie. Thanks for reminding me about it. How interesting to think about this archeological discovery taking place within twenty years of King Tutankhamun’s excavation, both occasions of finding wonderful things!
I am happy to have found your channel. Your delivery is interesting and vibrant. I enjoy how well researched each video is with not a whiff of ancient aliens or lost advanced civilisations. I look forward to continuing to discover things through you library of videos.
I love your style Raven- thanks and great job!
I love love love your longer videos! :)
Happy to see a new video of yours! Top content as always!
Thanks!! Glad you liked it
I live a walk away from Sutton hoo...I love history, an I really love archeology... I'm untrained, but love it, an I'm learning, just got a position at a local museum too...backwards seems to be my way forwards.
Thanks for another great video!!
Love the video, thanks Raven :)
Ahhh thanks!! Glad you liked it 😊
I just loved this video, thanks very much
Great video! Thank you very much for all the data! And thank you for saying "think critically". Yes!
This evening is movie time for us. 😊 Greetings from Sweden! 🇸🇪
Always gotta think critically 😉 glad you enjoyed the vid!
Thank you for sharing!
Thanks for reminding me of that book on the site that's been sitting on my shelf since the summer!
Perfect occasion to crack it open!
This video is exceptional in every way! Kudos from Brazil 🇧🇷
Holy shit, you definitely are in fact a literary intellectual... Only literary intellectuals, poets and authors drink port. Good on ya. Keep up the great work.
I've read about people in England finding hordes of coins. Someone hid them and never made it back to retrieve them
Fantastic video! Sutton Hoo is a great place to visit and walk amongst the mounds. The new museum there is really nice too and they do up close sessions with some of the pieces there too!
I really want to visit it one day! This video was meant to be filmed on site, but lockdown decided otherwise
@@DigItWithRaven Aw thats a shame...hopefully soon! Also on route is Colchester (my neck of the woods) which with the castle museum and historical sites around its also well worth checking out too!
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I’m digging ur preview, really POST view lol 😂 watched The Dig first! 😁👍🏽✌🏽🤍
Very informative video Raven thanks for the historical background on a well-known find
Love your take on Sutton Hu 😍🎉
You're damn good Raven! 😄😁
Wonderful history and hair. Great combo. Love her voice too.
In the same vein of British treasure hunting/archaeology, I would really like to see your review/reaction to the BBC series The Detectorists. Watch at least the first episode.
Hey Raven. While digging in our basement in France I came across a lot of Gallo Roman pottery (?) Pieces. Didn't think anything about it , till I started watching TimeTeam, and saw the enthusiasm they showed for a few bits of pottery! I have 2 shoeboxes full! Can send you some pics if you like..... Regards from France.
Great video, Raven! Had an archaeological question about the "impression" of the ship hull. All of the photos of the site I have seen, and even in the movie, appear to show the "ribs" of the hull, which would be located on the inside. Am I misinterpreting what I'm seeing, because an "impression" with missing timbers can, obviously, only show the outside? Were those just dirt ribs in presumed locations and later removed?
Great video, fascinating topic! Now that you are in the UK, I'd love to hear your thoughts about Time Team. It's having a resurgence right now as the producer is trying bring the series back
I have to give that a watch in the near future! Have heard so much about it
@@DigItWithRaven Arguably the best archaeology tv show ever made, I think you'll really enjoy
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A couple of years ago there were articles on genetic studies of soil in Denisova cave and last year- in Báishíyá róngdòng cave (in Tibet) where the scientists were able to identify presence of humans and animals through soil analysis. I wonder if that could still be done at Sutton Hoo(although, it was probably all cleaned up).
Thanks for your well done video! I am helping build the reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo ship in Woodbridge. It is being built in the Longshed by the train station.
In archaeology, as with any science, a satisfying conclusion won't always be waiting for you. But it's just as important to NOT draw conclusions when the evidence simply doesn't add up to anything. It would be nice to know who this tomb was for, but we probably never will. But the name of the person buried is such a small fraction of the historical information in this site. It's a reminder that all finds are good finds, even if you don't get exactly what you're looking for. And to think, it easily could've been overlooked in perpetuity (like any find) if it wasn't for the passion and commitment of those involved. Think of how many more amazing finds are sitting in someone's backyard!
Great video. Still don't know what BDE is xD
Why I watch idk 🤷♂️ but I love watching this
Raven gained 1k subs the other 9k she made in the upcoming period is HISTORY and that is all i wrote.
Haha the road to 10k subs has been a long but rewarding one! Let’s see if we can get to that milestone before the end of February!!
What's a BDE?
didn't he do videos for Polygon?
Do you think you will do a reaction video to the movie? I'm curious to know what you think of the criticism of how the female characters were portrayed.
Who cares? That has absolutely nothing to do with the subject matter.
@@Anaris10 I care
The moustache with the eyebrows are actually a bird.
Correct!! It’s such an ingenious design
@@DigItWithRaven And the two headed snake. Is it known what that means?
The Speaker is hott .. We can have a tea party anytime
Thanks for an interesting perspective. One correction: Ralph Fiennes name is pronounced “Rafe Fines”.
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Hey raven plz watch the run down with the rock I'd like to see a reaction video for that
So you first discussed this in Archaeology 101 in (cough) Ontario. Question: Who named Sutton Hoo? And was this the same Hoo Horton heard? Wasn't the nexus of Christianity and Paganism what King Arthur was all about? Perhaps this guy buried at Sutton Hoo knew him. Raven, I'm guessing you'd love a backyard like Edith Pretty had. I can hear you drooling now. Your hair is all one colour (note the spelling), but it seems you left a cue tip in your ear. That sometimes happens to people in their advanced years, or so I'm told. Kidding. That's a fancy earring to go with the rest of your lovely-ready-to-party-like-it's-1930's-England-ensemble. Perhaps you'll sip sherry with Rick and Evelyn O'Connell.
Haha if you look close enough, you’ll see my hair is now purple on the bottom! Maybe I should take a trip to Sutton Hoo once lockdown is over to see if that’s where Horton is hiding out... could be on to something there!
@@DigItWithRaven Watched it again full screen so yes, purple hair! VERY becoming. Also, your teeth are very clean. Surprised there is not an early 2000's Brad Pitt poster on your wall...
Didn’t Dr Seuss write a paper on this entitled Sutton finds a Hoo?
Haha the second Dr. Seuss reference so far! I love it and I’m also a tad disappointed that I didn’t think of it
You have to "dig" into the cultural past to come up with a reference like that. Come to think of it, can you imagine an archaeologist, in the future, digging through 5,000 years of debris and coming across the Cat in the Hat codices. Of course the faded text would be undecipherable but years of diligent analysis would reveal a forgotten pantheon of gods. The part human part cat figure would be deemed the god that would lead one into the afterlife. The meaning of the Grinch and other gods would need further research to determine their roles in the universe.
@@markkeller6635 If you like those types of speculations re: future archaeology, find a copy of "Motel of the Mysteries", which is a funny look at the future unearthing and speculations about an uncovered motel in America.
Motel of the Mysteries is one of my favorites and I recommend it to anyone interested in archaeology/history.
This was awesome! I learned, I was entertained, and I love your enthusiasm. Thank you. I did want to ask, are you going to do a review of the movie Stargate, like you did the Indiana Jones movies? czcams.com/video/kiJtZUPvJxY/video.html
Glad you liked it!! Stargate is on the list to react to. Hopefully we can do it soon :)
@@DigItWithRaven you and your friends shold have Hersey's 5th Avenue bars for the watch party. :)
sweden beat you we have 1 almost the same and six others found in seden.beowolf took place in scandinavia.and so on.and so on
Of course the snobs in Britain weren’t capable of giving appropriate credit to the find.
There's no reason to believe this king or noble would have been buried according to a strict code of religious protocol. If he was a king he'd be taking tribute from anyone coming through his domain. He might just have been buried with his favorite items. Even though I'm an atheist I'm not beyond the symbolism of grave goods. It might just have been the ultimate expression of power at the time to be buried at huge expense in a ship. We'll never know?
it wasn't Viking
The Dig is so inaccurate.... There's no way that guy could be flashed at by Lily James and still be gay.
The guy is an imagined character to spice up The Dig. Charles Phillips has been made the villain and 56-year-old Mrs Pretty a modern cudldly mummy. Valerie Fewnick