Episode description

For this episode, we finish "The Dig" by John Preston. This is an historical fiction book featuring the events and people involved in the discovery and excavation of the Sutton Hoo site in England in 1938 which changed our understanding of the "Dark Ages."

In this episode we learn more about the site as the excavation comes under new management and Basil Brown getting pushed aside.  We also are introduced to a young Peggy Piggott (a real archaeologist) starting a career in a field that was very much dominated by men at the time.

Our next read will be about underwater archaeology and pirates with the book "Captain Kidd's Lost Ship: The Wreck Of The Quedagh Merchant" by Frederick H. Hanselmann.

If you are reading along and are struggling with "Chapter 1: Theoretical Models for Interpretation" we encourage you to skip it and move onto the next chapter.