Watching brief by N Cowlard of EEHAS in an area where the precise location of Stane Street was not known revealed no finds or features of archaeological interest. A subsequent excavation of four test pits by EEHAS and SyAS along the eastern property boundary did not reveal any evidence of the road or roadside features, but the lack of subsoil in three of the trenches (and its presence in the fourth trench only at a greater depth) suggests that the site had been scraped in the past.