The Dig, starring Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, and Lily James is adapted from a 2016 novel of the same title by John Preston based on true events. In 1939, the widowed owner of a farm near Woodbridge in Suffolk, England, hired an amateur archaeologist to excavate unusual mounds on her property. What was uncovered was the find of a century - a fully equipped Anglo-Saxon ship from the 7th century outfitted with medieval artifacts. The novel and the film chronicle the extraordinary discovery against the backdrop of an impending world war.
