Although he lacks the respect of educated archaeologists, he's clearly the best man for the job when the wealthy Edith Pretty (Mulligan) needs someone to lead a dig on some land she's acquired, which seems to contain several burial mounds.
Brown is highly skilled in his profession and has been working in the field since childhood.
If Fiennes seems an unconventional choice for gruff excavator Basil Brown, he is at least a Suffolk native himself. Featuring unshowy work from Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes, The Dig sees the world teetering on the brink of war given our national obsession with the period, it's refreshing to come at the era from a different angle. The Australian director of The Daughter, Simon Stone, brings grace and fluidity to the story of a seminal historical find, as he recounts the discovery of an Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in 1939. Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes and Lily James get their hands dirty in this historical drama
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