in time, all traces of the stuplje monastery disappeared from the face of the earth. in the 20th century, stuplje was a historical term with an uncertain location, assumed to be somewhere in the area of teslić and in the vicinity of the liplje monastery. in march 1994, this area was visited by archaeologists who searched for stuplje in the village of gornji vijačani at a locality named crkvište, near a stream called manastirica and a hill called kaluđersko brdo. the toponyms crkvište, manastirica, and kaluđersko were indicative, being derived from the serbian "crkva", "manastir", and "kaluđer", meaning "church", "monastery", and "monk", respectively. the archaeologists uncovered the foundation of a church building in the form of a basilica, 14 metres in length and 7.5 metres in width. the uppermost layer of stones was 30 centimetres below the ground surface. within and around the foundation, there was a layer of burned debris. the archaeologists revisited the site in 1997, when they uncovered the foundation of a monastic building to the north and west of the church foundation. scholars concluded that these finds were remains of the stuplje monastery.