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Feb 3, 2021 · Netflix have brought to life the true story of the excavation of Sutton Hoo and the work of Basil Brown and Peggy Piggott. Piggott (also known as Cecily Margaret Guido) was born in 1912 in...
Cecily Margaret Guido, FSA, FSA Scot (née Preston; 5 August 1912 – 8 September 1994), also known as Peggy Piggott, was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist.
- Basil Brown Wasn’T Buried in A Mound Collapse
- Photographer Rory Lomax Is Fictional
- Peggy Piggott Was An Experienced Archaeologist
- A Warplane Didn’T Crash Nearby During The Excavation
- The Real Dig Took Longer
- There Was Not as Much Conflict Between Brown and Phillips
Although Basil Brown is based on a real person, not everything that happened to him in the movie occurred during the real excavation. In The Dig, Brown is buried under a mound’s collapsing dirt walls early in the excavation, but this never actually happened. While wall collapses are a concern archaeologists must contend with, there’s no record that...
In the film, Edith Pretty brings in her cousin, Rory Lomax (Johnny Flynn), to assist at the site and take photographs of the excavation. He becomes involved in a romance with married archaeologist Peggy Piggott (Lily James) before he is called up by the Royal Air Force and departs for World War II. Not only is the romance entirely fake, but Rory Lo...
The Dig’s Peggy Piggott is presented as an amateur only getting her start in archaeology at the side of her husband. In fact, by 1939, Peggy Piggott was an experienced archaeologist. In the movie, Piggott says she has not done much fieldwork, but the real archaeologist had already directed an excavation in 1937 in addition to extensive fieldwork. L...
As Edith Pretty and the excavation team prepared to celebrate their success in the movie, a warplane crashed into the water nearby, a fatal accident in which they had to recover the body of the pilot. There is also no record of this happening during the excavation. During a celebratory party, Charles Phillips’ speech about the ship burial was drown...
Archaeology does not usually happen quickly, and the movie compressed the timeline to make it seem like the entire dig happened in a single season. Basil Brown actually started work at Sutton Hoo in 1938 and found some small but significant artifacts, such as ship rivets, that hinted at the treasure at the site. The movie has Brown starting work in...
Many adaptations of true stories exaggerate conflicts between characters (just look at Mank's handling of Herman Mankiewicz and Citizen Kane), and the animosity between Basil Brown and Charles Phillips is no exception. There is some basis in fact, however. Brown was relegated to assisting on the dig after Phillips arrived, and his name was left out...
The inquest, held at Sutton Village Hall on 14 August, saw the return of all the objects to Suffolk. Evidence was given by Edith Pretty, Charles Phillips, Guy Maynard, Basil Brown and Stuart Piggott. Security was once again provided by PCs Ling and Grimsey. The verdict of the jury was that the items were the property of Edith Pretty.
To uncover a less fictional understanding of Peggy Piggott, and provide insight into the role of women in 1930s archaeology, we explore her early life and archaeological training with Dr Eliot Curwen, his son Eliot Cecil Curwen, and Mortimer and Tessa Wheeler.
Jun 19, 2023 · Summary. The 2021 film, The Dig, stimulated much interest in discovering more about Peggy Piggott, the archaeologist who first ‘struck gold’ at Sutton Hoo. Piggott was a leading British prehistorian, who produced over sixty published works for the field.
Feb 27, 2021 · Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes, honorary fellow in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, said Netflix missed a trick not making James’s Peggy a powerful...
