Settling on the goal of discovery for all to observe over any attainment of possible personal riches is the easiest decision made by Mrs. Basil boils it down to “digging on evidence not feeling,” yet both come into play. There’s a respectful way of going about such a thing. Exploring this site could mean disturbing final resting places that carried holy wishes. LESSON #1: TO DIG OR NOT TO DIG- Right from the start, the leading ethical question of archaeology becomes paramount to Mrs. Edith herself is alone on her estate raising her adventuresome son Robert (Archie Barnes) and weathering debilitating stomach issues. It is a feeling soon echoed by the self-trained Brown. After all, King Henry VIII once dug on the same site. 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.In 1939, widowed landowner Edith Pretty ( Promising Young Woman’s Carey Mulligan, adding 20 years to her age) hired skilled excavator Basil Brown (Oscar nominee Ralph Fiennes) to investigate centuries-old burial mounds on her property near the River Deben tidal estuary in Suffolk of eastern England. 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.

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