# The Dig

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- Book: [The Dig](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-preston/the-dig) ([The Dig.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-preston/the-dig.md))
- Authors: [John Preston](https://www.bookquiver.com/john-preston)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4198-963-0
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2021-01-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But 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. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find... John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.