In a stunning discovery, a group of boarding school students in Scotland stumbled upon what could be a 1,000-year-old Viking-era church, after finding the foundations of an altar and a step during an archaeological project on a remote island. The discovery was made on Swona, a deserted island in Orkney, during an annual service trip organised by Gordonstoun, the Scottish boarding school that counts King Charles III and his late father, Prince Philip, among its alma mater. The school runs the Swona Service Project, through which students travel to the isolated island to take part in archaeological investigations and restoration work.
