Peggy Piggott, played by Lily James, is portrayed as an inexperienced and underappreciated member of the excavation team. Sutton Hoo ship burial excavation in 1939 (Photo taken from Molletts Farm, 2020) While there are other criticisms towards this film, given that the characters are based on real life people, the unfair misrepresentation of Peggy Piggott stands out as both a historical inaccuracy and a current issue of today’s society. The Sutton Hoo ship burial is regarded to be one of the most important archaeological finds in England and, despite the criticisms, the film has been an international success.
The film serves to shed light on the iconic Sutton Hoo hoard, and the people involved in its discovery, whilst including a romantic subplot to entertain a wider demographic. Netflix’s The Dig, released in January 2021, is based on the 1939 excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England. Cover image: Peggy in 1935 (Photo by University of Oxford, School of Archaeology)
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