Recent excavations for a water pipe have cut across the line of this road exposing some of the rubble foundation at ST40855860. The road continues west to cross the A371 below Banwell Nursery and appears to join the Lane north of Rhodyate Farm. Geophysics in this area has not been able to determine the position of the road, although in one field parallel ditches along the probable course were evident.
There is the possibility of the existence of another road that would appear to cross (or join) the above road. Geophysics has identified parallel ditches about 16m apart; there is a compacted gravel surface between these ditches, but this may be a natural deposit. The line of the road (if that is what it proves to be) would take it approximately north east towards the track across the top of Sandford Hill where a Romano-British settlement was claimed to have existed on Small Down (known as ‘Smaldon’ in Collinson’s The history and antiquities of the County of Somerset, 1791). No other evidence for the existence of this road has yet been established.
