Did Basil Brown descoverd sutton hoo?

Edith Pretty, the owner of the land, commissioned Basil Brown from Ipswich Museum to excavate the mounds in the summer of 1939.

Mrs Pretty had an amateur interest in Archaeology and a strong suspicion that the hillocks on her land were burial mounds, so in a sense, it was she who realized their importance and began the long process of excavation and preservation. Basil Brown was the first professional archaeologist to work on the site.