Thread by @R1100GSBlueNose

Well, as I appear to have upset half of FB, I'll go for the double on Twitter then shut up about it: #TheDig

1) Edith Pretty was 5 years older than Basil Brown at the time of the dig.
2) Basil wasn’t an amateur, he was self-taught, and paid to dig sites by Ipswich Museum 1/n

3) The site photos were taken by two women, Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff
4) Biggles the photographer is a complete invention. He did not exist.
5) Stuart and Peggy Piggott were roughly the same age.
6) Stuart was not Peggy’s professor.

7) They did not break off their honeymoon to go on the dig.
8) Peggy was a respected and very experienced archaeologist by the time of Sutton Hoo.
9) There is zero evidence Stuart Piggott was gay.
10) Their marriage lasted another 15 years or thereabouts after Sutton Hoo.

11) A trench did not cave in on Basil.
12) A Spitfire did not crash into the river. A US B-17 did, but much later on, during the war.
13) Sutton Hoo is a sand site. It’s virtually dry ten minutes after the rain stops, so no mud.
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Dunno what everyone's getting so aeriated about, at least I didn't add
14) "The trowels are wrong for 1939" (which they are, apparently) #TheDig
*legs it* 😁