Discover the true story behind The Dig, now showing on Netflix, featuring Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes. The items uncovered in 1939 from an Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, are ranked among the greatest treasures of the British Museum's collection. Gathering exquisite art from England, Germany, Scandinavia, Alexandria, and distant Byzantium, the impressive finds included gold and garnet jewelry, silverware, silver-gilt vessels, a lyre, and a scepter, as well as the iconic helmet, all deliberately buried in the early seventh century as grave goods for an important, though unidentified, warrior. The Sutton Hoo ship burial was one of the most exciting discoveries in the history of British archaeology. This elegantly crafted introduction to the treasure describes its most notable pieces and explores the circumstances of its burial, discovery, and excavation, as well as its enduring legacy and fame.