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Edith May Pretty, née Dempster le 1 er août 1883 et morte le 17 décembre 1942, est une propriétaire terrienne anglaise. Le bateau-tombe de Sutton Hoo est découvert sur ses terres après qu'elle a engagé Basil Brown, un excavateur local/archéologue autodidacte, pour découvrir si quelque chose se trouvait sous les tumulus de sa ...
Edith May Pretty (née Dempster; 1 August 1883 – 17 December 1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered after she hired Basil Brown, a local excavator and amateur archeologist, to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
Edith Pretty arranged the excavation of the earth mounds of her Suffolk home in 1938–1939, where the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship burial was discovered. It proved to be the richest intact burial ever found in Medieval Europe and contained a chamber full of treasures.
Edith Pretty was a widowed landowner who donated the Sutton Hoo ship burial to the British Museum in 1939. The burial, discovered by archaeologist Basil Brown, revealed a royal warrior's grave and trading links with Scandinavia and Byzantium.
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Proclamée propriétaire officielle de ce trésor, Edith Pretty en fait don au British Museum, qui devra le cacher tout au long de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans une station du métro londonien ...
Edith Pretty was the owner of the estate and instigated the excavation. Born into a wealthy family, she spent her youth touring the world and witnessed several excavations which gave her a life-long interest in archaeology. She married her husband, Major Frank Pretty, and moved to Sutton Hoo in 1926. In 1930 she gave birth to a son, Robert ...
5 févr. 2021 · Edith Pretty, a wealthy widow, hired archaeologist Basil Brown to excavate her land in 1937. They discovered the richest medieval burial ever found in Europe, changing historians' view of the Dark Ages.
