Who Should Rule These Scottish Islands?
Even if All of Scotland Achieves Independence, the Archipelago of Orkney May Not Gain Sovereignty
Ten years ago a farmer was digging in his backyard in Ness of Brodgar—a village on one of the islands that makes up the Scottish archipelago of Orkney—when he came across some strange stones. They seemed to be man-made. By 2008 archaeologists had started to excavate the site on a small stretch of green land between the waters of the North Atlantic. Soon they realized they had found the most well-preserved stone houses of the Stone Age—what are now being called the First Stonehenge.
Who governed Orkney then? We don’t know. …
