Just watched The Dig. I know liberties must have been taken for the sake of making a compelling film, but it still left me with so many questions. For one, how did Mr. Brown immediately know the artifacts were from the Anglo Saxon period when at the time there were so many unknowns about that period of history? This was before carbon dating technology.
/u/textandtrowel and /u/PlinyTheHipster talk about Sutton Hoo in response to Why aren't the Anglo-Saxons considered Vikings?
/u/Platypuskeeper has also answered What happened to the Geats? Did they migrate to Anglo-Saxon England?
More answers remain to be written, and there are other threads around inspired by The Dig.