in Rickinghall and was cremated at Ipswich crematorium on 17 March. Legacy and assessment The regard in which Brown was held is evident from the efforts made by members of the Suffolk Institute to provide him with a pension. The Sutton Hoo scholar Rupert Bruce-Mitford ensured that Brown was awarded a Civil list pension of £250 in 1966. While he never published material on his archaeological work as a sole author, his meticulously kept notebooks, including photographs, plans and drawings, are now kept by the Suffolk County Council Archaeological Service and Ipswich Records Office. Out of this was developed the County Sites and Monuments Record of Suffolk, the basis of the record as it exists today. He encouraged groups of children to work on his sites, and introduced a whole generation of youngsters to the processes of archaeology and the fascination of what lay under the ploughed fields of the county. Brown's contributions to archaeology were recognised in 2009 by a plaque in Rickinghall Inferior Church; the plaque attests to his esteem among Suffolk archaeologists, historians, and locals. The items found at Sutton Hoo as a result of his initial excavations continue to be studied through current scientific methods from time to time at the British Museum – most recently, yielding additional insights into the origin of bitumen found among the grave goods. The annual Basil Brown Memorial Lecture in his name was established by the Sutton Hoo Society, which supports research at the site of Brown's greatest discovery. A street in Rickinghall, the village where Brown lived, was named Basil Brown Close. Brown was a central character in the 2021 film The Dig, which retold the events of the Sutton Hoo discoveries. He was played by Ralph Fiennes who was born in nearby Ipswich. Bibliography Brown, B. (1924). "Star Atlases and Charts". The English Mechanic and World of Science 119, Issue 3071: 4–5, 1 February. Brown, B. (1924). "The Star Catalogues". The English Mechanic and World of Science 120, issue 3105: 140, 26 September. Brown, B. (1932, 1968). Astronomical Atlases, Maps and Charts. Search Publishing Company, London, 1932. Reprinted by Dawson's of Pall Mall, 1968. . Brown, B. (1932). "Stephen Groombridge FRS (1755–1832)". Journal of the British Astronomical Association 42, no. 6: 212. Read by Frederick Addey to the BAA meeting of 30 March. Maynard, G., Brown, B., Spencer, H. E. P., Grimes, W. F., and Moore, I. E.