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Hoo you lookin’ at? Owls let fly at each other in vicious territorial battle over bird box 

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Hoo you lookin’ at? Barn owl and tawny owl let fly at each other in vicious territorial battle over bird box Susan Howes has had a bird box attached to her stables for the past 20 years  She has welcomed several birds, including various owls and kestrels to bird box  After a pair of owls … Read more

Netflix’s new Sutton Hoo film The Dig is caught up in sexism row

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Netflix’s The Dig has been slammed as sexist for reducing an experienced archaeologist to a ‘bumbling, deferential, sidekick to her husband’. The film depicts the unearthing of the famous Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk and stars Ralph Fiennes as self-taught local archaeologist Basil Brown and Lily James as 27-year-old excavator Peggy Piggott. Mrs Piggott was … Read more

The true story of the Suton Hoo treasure ship

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Scraping at the dirt, earth thick under his fingernails, amateur archeologist Basil Brown came across a section of hard earth. After further excavations, he found other patches stained with rust, and iron nails and rivets spread intermittently across the site.  Over several weeks, after a delicate and painsteaking operation, archologist Basil Brown saw the shape … Read more