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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
Neil Pooran

Pupils from King’s former school discover ‘1,000-year-old Viking church’ on uninhabited island

A team of students spent 10 days on the uninhabited island (Gordonstoun/PA) -

A group of students from the school The King attended, have discovered the remains of what is thought to be a medieval Viking church on an uninhabited Scottish island.

Students and staff from Gordonstoun, a private school in Moray which the King attended, made the discovery on an archaeological field trip to Swona, a tiny Orkney island where only feral cattle live.

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