Archaeologists have been gathering evidence of places where warships were dragged across land.
Vikings may have moved ships - similar to this replica of a vessel found in a Viking burial ground in Norway - across land in the west of Scotland
The practice, called portage, would have saved crews dangerous journeys by sea around the 40-mile long Kintyre peninsula. There is also a Tarbert on Gigha with a standing stone visible from the sea and believed to have been used as a navigational aid.A story called a saga written in the 13th Century tells of a king of Norway, Magnus Barelegs, staking a claim to Kintyre by sitting in the back of a boat and being dragged across the land.
Archaeologists hope new technology will determine whether it dates to the Viking age, and potentially formed part of a portage system for moving boats.
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