A trial trench was excavated by Colchester Archaeology Group in 1992/3 across the line of a cropmark recorded by aerial photography, defining the line of a probable Roman road (four ditches of a three-track Roman road, aligned NNW-SSE), which is partly on the line of Great Tey Road; the excavation trench was located on the north side of Tey Brook.<1> Trench T1, 0.8 m wide, dug parallel to and about 7m from the Brook, revealed that a flint surface was that of a layer of flints. The trench was gradually extended over 23.7m to uncover the full width of the stones as well as an adequate margin on both sides. It provided a section across the road, not quite at right angles to the line of it. A second trench T2 was cut from T1 to the Brook. The width of the flint layer, 15.7m, was about the same as the distance between the inner edges of the two outer ditches of the road found at the previous site, Teybrook A (no ditches were defined at Site B, and there are no cropmarks to the nroth of the Brook).<2> Apart from the modern material in the known intrusions, the dateable finds were all of the Roman period, the profusion of tile in the road bed being noteworthy. By themselves the finds do not provide a conclusive dating for the road, but coupled with the features revealed at Teybrook A they strongly confirm that the road is Roman.