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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.

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. The Dig is a cinematic sci-fi point-and-click adventure game based on a plot idea by Steven Spielberg. He proposed to Edith on her eighteenth birthday, but she had to decline because her father disapproved of their relationship. Held together by two very well pitched performances from Carey Mulligan and, especially, Ralph Fiennes, The Dig is a somber and affecting true story juggling. 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. By Katy Prickett BBC News The Anglo-Saxon treasures unearthed at Sutton Hoo have been described as one of 'greatest archaeological discoveries of all time'.