The Dig is a novel by John Preston, published May 2007, set in the context of the 1939 Anglo-Saxon ship burial excavation at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, England.
 The novel has been widely reviewed as ‘an account of the excavation at Sutton Hoo in 1939’.
 The sleevenote advertises it as 'a brilliantly realized account of the most famous archaeological dig in Britain in modern times.'
 However the account in the book differs in various ways from the real events of the Sutton Hoo excavations.
The Sutton Hoo purse-lid is one of the major objects excavated from the Anglo-Saxon royal burial-ground at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, England.
 The site contains a collection of burial mounds, of which much the most significant is the undisturbed ship burial in Mound 1 containing very rich grave goods including the purse-lid.
 The person buried in Mound 1 is usually thought to have been Raedwald, King of East Anglia, who died around 624.
 The purse-lid is considered to be "one of the most remarkable creations of the early medieval period."
 About seven and a half inches long, it is decorated with beautiful ornament in gold and garnet cloisonné enamel, and was undoubtedly a symbol of great wealth and status.
 In 2017 the purse-lid was on display at the British Museum.
Rendlesham is a village and civil parish near Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom.
 It was a royal centre of authority for the king of the East Anglians, of the Wuffinga line; the proximity of the Sutton Hoo ship burial may indicate a connection between Sutton Hoo and the East Anglian royal house.
 Swithhelm, son of Seaxbald, who reigned from 660 to around 664, was baptised at Rendlesham by Saint Cedd with King Aethelwald of East Anglia acting as his godfather.
 He died around the time of the great plague of 664 and may have been buried at the palace of Rendlesham.
Bergh Apton Anglo-Saxon cemetery is a late-5th to late-6th century Anglo-Saxon burial site discovered at Bergh Apton, Norfolk.
 The site was excavated in 1973 and 63 graves were found.
 The south and west portions of the site had previously been destroyed.
 The state of preservation of the skeletal remains was described as "very poor" due to the acidity of the soil and the sex of individuals was determined by grave goods.
 Grave goods found at the site included weapons, shields, spears and jewellery.
 One grave, possibly of a minstrel-poet, was found to contain a lyre similar to that found at Sutton Hoo.
 Twelve of the graves were those of children aged under 12 years.
 No evidence for an Anglo-Saxon settlement adjacent to the cemetery has been found.
A ship burial or boat-shaped burial is a burial in which the coffin or container of the dead is shaped like a boat.
 At times, the container of the dead is boat-shaped in itself, and sometimes grave goods shaped like boats are also present in the burial site.
 This kind of burial was common among Germanic peoples, including the Vikings and Scandinavians.
 But archaeological evidence has shown the presence of these kinds of burials in both mainland and insular Southeast Asia and East Asia.
Charles Green (1901 – 1972) was an English archaeologist noted for his excavations in East Anglia, and his work on the Sutton Hoo ship-burial.
 His "signal achievements" were his East Anglian excavations, including four years spent by Caister-on-Sea and Burgh Castle, and several weeks in 1961 as Director of excavations at Walsingham Priory.
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 Green additionally brought his "long experience of boat-handling" to bear in writing his 1960 book, "Sutton Hoo: The Excavation of a Royal Ship-Burial".
The Sutton Hoo helmet is a decorated Anglo-Saxon helmet discovered during the 1939 excavation of the Sutton Hoo ship burial.
 It was buried around 625 and is widely believed to have been the helmet of King Rædwald of East Anglia, and its elaborate decoration may have given it a secondary function akin to a crown.
 The helmet is "the most iconic object" from "one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries ever made," and one of the most important Anglo-Saxon artefacts ever found.
 Its visage features eyebrows, nose, and moustache, creating the image of a man joined by a dragon's head to become a soaring dragon with outstretched wings.
 It has become a symbol of the Dark Ages and also "of Archaeology in general."
 It was excavated as hundreds of rusted fragments, and was first displayed following an initial reconstruction in 1945–46, and then in its present form after a second reconstruction in 1970–71.
A ship burial or boat grave is a burial in which a ship or boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself.
 If the ship is very small, it is called a boat grave.
 This style of burial was used among the Germanic peoples, particularly by Viking Age Norsemen.
 According to the Boxer Codex, ship burials were also practiced by the indigenous peoples of the Philippines.
Burial in Early Anglo-Saxon England refers to the grave and burial customs followed by the Anglo-Saxons between the mid 5th and 11th centuries CE in Early Mediaeval England.
 There was "an immense range of variation" of burial practice performed by the Anglo-Saxon peoples during this period, with them making use of both cremation and inhumation.
 In most cases, the "two modes of burial were given to both wealthy and ordinary individuals", and in many cases were found alongside one another in the same cemetery.
 Both of these forms of burial were typically accompanied by grave goods, which included food, jewellery and weaponry.
 The actual burials themselves, whether of cremated or inhumed remains, were placed in a variety of sites, including in cemeteries, burial mounds or, more rarely, in ship burials.
Sets of ritual bronzes are the most impressive surviving objects from the Chinese Bronze Age.
 During the Shang dynasty, China became one of the most skilled bronze-working civilizations in the ancient world, as people heated, melted, and cast metal to making cooking utensils, tools, weapons, and other household items.
 Modern archaeologists see such preservation of how the ancient Chinese lived by interpreting from lacquer paintings on wood which helped preserve ancient Chinese bronze artifacts.
 Being from around 1650 BCE, these elaborately decorated vessels were deposited as grave goods in the tombs of royalty and the nobility, and were evidently produced in very large numbers, with documented excavations finding over 200 pieces in a single royal tomb.
 They were produced for an individual to use in ritual offerings of food and drink to his ancestors in family temples or ceremonial halls over tombs, or rather ritual banquets in which both living and dead members of a family participated; early literary records speak of these.
 On the death of the owner they would be placed in his tomb, so that he could continue to pay his respects in the afterlife; other examples were cast specifically as grave goods.

Question: Charles Green, was an English archaeologist noted for his excavations in East Anglia, and his work on the Sutton Hoo, which type of burial in which a ship or boat is used either as a container for the dead and the grave goods, or as a part of the grave goods itself?
Answer: ship burial