The two archaeologists hasten to Brown’s mound and soon come upon gold ornaments and other evidence of a kingly interment that may well “alter our entire understanding of the Dark Ages,” Peggy opines. Cut to a coastal hotel where Stuart and Peggy Piggott are but a few days into their tepid honeymoon (“After breakfast Stuart went for his morning walk”) when a telegram from Phillips summons them to the dig. It's Cambridge archaeologist Charles Phillips, bow-tied and bumptious, who bullies his way into control of the site. But word gets out, and all too soon an oversized figure is descending the ladder into Brown’s dig. Brown soon realizes he's working on one of the most important finds in England. When Edith Pretty wants to know what lies beneath the earthen mounds on her property, she hires Basil Brown, a soil expert recommended by the local Ipswich Museum. A historical novel that looks at the foibles and emotions of people involved in an archaeological dig on the grounds of a Suffolk, England, estate in 1939.

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