gas capped

Hi all, I have a gas pipe which was capped off when our gas fire was removed many years ago. It's recently starting leaking a bit.. so I had a gas engineer round to seal/re-cap it somehow (don't worry the gas is completely off now so all safe!) Anyway the gas guy told me that the pipe has been...

Hi, Im buying a house and the surveyor sent me this pic, can anyone please tell if it has been capped from this ? ( if so Ive been told a new pipe would have to be trenched in ) thanks