He is also the nephew of one of the excavators of Sutton Hoo, Mrs. John Preston was for many years chief television critic for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper. The author employs a degree of literary licence so that the account in the book differs in various ways from the real events of the Sutton Hoo excavations. The dust jacket describes it as "a brilliantly realized account of the most famous archaeological dig in Britain in modern times". ![]() ![]() The Dig is a historical novel by John Preston, published in May 2007, set in the context of the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England.
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