The excavation will be filmed by Time Team as a series exclusive for a documentary special, hosted by Sir Tony Robinson.

The project, which starts in June, will build on work carried out by Time Team in 2021 and 2023.

Mr Wainwright said previous work by Time Team identified mysterious features in Garden Field, Sutton Hoo.

“We know from previous work in this field, it’s likely we will find prehistoric flint tools and fragments of Anglo Saxon objects from burials scattered through the plough soil, but working out what the mysterious geophysical anomalies are will be our focus.”

The team said it hoped to discover evidence of the prehistory of the site and more information about an Anglo Saxon cemetery that was discovered in 2000, when the National Trust was building a visitor centre.

“The discovery of the Great Ship Burial in 1939 not only stunned the archaeological world but set the scene for further exploration.

“Later archaeological campaigns at Sutton Hoo helped solve mysteries left by the original dig and revealed more about life in the Anglo Saxon kingdom of East Anglia. We can’t wait to see what this next chapter will bring,” added Mr Wainwright.

The discovery in 1939, was fictionalised in the film The Dig, with Carey Mulligan starring as landowner Edith Pretty and Ralph Fiennes as archaeologist Basil Brown.