Related: One Night In Miami True Story: How Much is Real & What The Movie Made Up As word of the find spread, Charles Phillips (Ken Stott) and his team of archaeologists took over the excavation under the urgency of the looming threat of World War II. He unearthed a find no one expected, an intact 6th-century ship burial that redefined historical knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons. In 1939, Edith Pretty (played in the movie by Carey Mulligan) hired self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her land. The movie sticks to the truth with the foundations of the story, and most of the characters in The Dig movie are based on real people involved in the excavation. If you want to be the first to receive the latest news from Malta, download the Newsbook APP here. This eventually became the still to-go-to reference book on Maltese prehistoric monuments, ‘The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands’ by J.D Evans (1971). Some of the books by Stuart Piggott found-at the NMA reference-library | Photo credit: National Museum of Archaeology, MaltaĪccording to the NMA, Piggott was to leave a more significant mark on Maltese archaeology as one of the external experts on the commission supervising the defining study, Malta Ancient Monuments Survey which recorded Malta’s prehistoric monuments, excavations and objects found there. One of the characters in the film The Dig (which is based on the true story of the Sutton Hoo excavation) currently streaming on Netflix, is archaeologist Stuart Piggott, played by actor Ben Chaplin.īut what connection did the real-life Piggott have with Malta?Ī very interesting post on the National Museum of Archaeology (NMA), Malta’s Facebook Page speaks of a short stop by Piggott and scientist and archaeologist Glyn Daniel in Malta in 1943, en route from Cairo to Algiers, where the two “spent two ‘blissful’ days inspecting megalithic monuments and rock-cut tombs on the island, several spattered with bits of German and Italian aircraft” (Source: Roger Mercer, British Academy 1998).
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