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A name everyone is now familiar with thanks to Netflix’s 2021 film The
Dig, Edith Pretty was instrumental in helping bring to light one of the
most important historical discoveries of the 20th century.
Ms Pretty was the landowner where the ancient Sutton Hoo ship burial
was found, and had she not hired local archaeologist Basil Brown to
come excavate the site, those mounds have may been left unearthed.
Edith passed away on December 17, 1942 after suffering a stroke, and
her grave can be found in the All Saints churchyard in the village of
Sutton.
