and soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find. In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war.īut on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Pretty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. A major chapter in Peggy's life comes to an end. Stephen Critchlowīasil Brown explains how he first found traces of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship.Īs Peggy's husband leaves the site to discuss finds with the British Museum, Rory Lomax arrives at Sutton Hoo and introduces her to the nightingale's song.Īs the public are invited to see the excavations, a row erupts over where the treasure is to be kept.Īs war is declared, work stops on the dig. Peggy and her husband interrupt their honeymoon as they are called to take part in Britain's most significant archaeological excavation.Ĭharles Phillips.
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