Edith May Pretty (née Dempster; 1 August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on …

Edith Pretty arranged the excavation of the earth mounds of her Suffolk home in 1938–1939, where the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial was discovered. It proved to be the richest intact burial ever found in Medieval Europe and contained a chamber full of treasures. Pretty was declared the owner but refused to sell her find.

2006年12月21日 · MARY Skelcher was like a girl on Christmas morning. She'd been handed a tin trunk full of letters and other personal documents that once belonged to Edith Pretty - the woman who unlocked the...

Sutton Hoo is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries dating from the 6th to 7th centuries near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Archaeologists have been excavating the area since 1938, when an undisturbed ship burial containing a wealth of Anglo-Saxon artifacts was discovered.

2021年2月5日 · In the summer of 1937, as the specter of World War II loomed over Europe, Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow living near Woodbridge, a small town in Suffolk, England, met with the curator of a local...

In 1938 Basil Brown was commissioned by the owner of the site, Edith Pretty, to excavate three of the burial mounds on her property at Sutton Hoo. The results indicated that the burials dated from the Anglo-Saxon period, and had contained the remains of elite members of society.

Edith Pretty was the owner of the estate and instigated the excavation. Born into a wealthy family, she spent her youth touring the world and witnessed several excavations which gave her a life-long interest in archaeology. She married her husband, Major Frank Pretty, and moved to Sutton Hoo in 1926. In 1930 she gave birth to a son, Robert.

2021年2月2日 · In Netflix's 'The Dig,' Carey Mulligan plays the Englishwoman responsible for the groundbreaking Sutton Hoo excavation. Here's the true story of Edith Pretty.

2022年8月24日 · Edith Pretty lived at Tranmer House on the Sutton Hoo estate and instigated the excavations with local archaeologist Basil Brown in 1937. The story of the discoveries was retold in the 2021...

2017年3月4日 · She was 42 when she married a man who had been in love with her since she was 18, and they bought Sutton Hoo, a large estate in Suffolk with a beautiful house on a hill, overlooking the river Deben. Sutton Hoo Manor House, now Tranmer House, in honour of the last owners who gave the estate to the British Heritage.