Complex sentence: Edith May Pretty (1883--1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered, after she had paid a local archaeologist to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.
Split into simpler sentences: Edith May Pretty (1883--1942) was an English landowner on whose land the Sutton Hoo ship burial was discovered. She paid a local archaeologist to find out if anything lay beneath the mounds on her property.