The dig
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Word Count
57,500 words, Guess
Page Count
230 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL16121856M
- ISBN-139780670914913
- ISBN-100670914916
- OCLC Control Number77540876
- OCLC Control Numberdig0000pres_h3b9
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- Goodreads1116753
- LibraryThing5513346
Classifications
- LCCPR6066.R4847 D54 2007
Description
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivaly flourished in equal measure
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