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Their threads of love, loss, and aspiration weave a common awareness of the past as something that can never truly be left behind.

As the war looms ever closer, engraved gold peeks through the soil, and each character searches for answers in the buried treasure. This fictional recreation of the famed Sutton Hoo dig follows three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find. Pretty, the widowed owner of the farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. 29, is set in the English countryside during World War II, and tells the true story of the groundbreaking (pun very much intended) archeological dig.

In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. She along with Basil Brown played by actor Ralph Fiennes who worked on the excavation of The Great Ship Burial and his assistants Bert Fuller and Tom Sawyer along with the Ipswich museum joined forces and started excavating Edith’s estate.THE BASIS FOR THE NETFLIX FILM STARRING CAREY MULLIGAN, RALPH FIENNES, AND LILY JAMESĪ literary adventure that tells the story of a priceless buried treasure discovered in England on the eve of World War II Edith May Pretty (née Dempster 1 August 1883 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property. Frank and Edith Pretty's son Robert was born in 1930.įrank Pretty died due to stomach cancer when Edith Pretty's son Robert was just 4 years old. When Edith Pretty’s son Robert Pretty got a bit older she asked for help from the Ipswich museum to tell her what was on her estate. In July 1937, Edith met Vincent Redstone, a local historian, and spoke about burial mounds on her estate, which she became increasingly curious about. Edith and Frank finally married a year after her father passed away in 1925. He proposed to Edith on her eighteenth birthday, but she had to decline because her father disapproved of their relationship. Her husband, Frank Pretty, knew her for many years before they got married. According to the British Museum, Edith Pretty was born in 1883 came from a wealthy family and inherited the Sutton Hoo estate.