Was Not / Were Not?

I'm having a brain-fart and having repeated both versions of the following sentence to myself umpteen times both now sound wrong.

There were not any skid marks on the road.
There was not any skid marks on the road.

"Skid marks" is plural so logic is telling me that I should be using were rather than was.
But in speech I contract my words (although this isn't a line of dialogue, it's an inner observation by the PoV char) and "There wasn't any skid marks on the road," sounds minimally better than "There weren't any skid marks on the road."
Maybe I should just write "There was not any indication of skidding upon the surface of the road."

Feel free to beat me with a wet noodle for being an eejit.

Thank you.

Miranda - country-bumpkin English is going to be my downfall.

Will - Do you mean you'd like the road to be described in the positive form before the negative form in that sentence or just in general?

A few sentences prior to this is "The quiet country lane (or it would have been quiet if not for the cacophony of the car alarm) was unfamiliar but that wasn’t too unusual, her job took her many miles to remote locations."

OSG - Me thinks I needs t'learn t'speak proper in me own 'ead before I commits words t'screen.

Same wip as previous posts - just a different point in time.

mirandashell said:

Whose accent are you trying to write in?

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At that point it's narrative about the POV chars observations, so I'm not consciously trying to write with an accent.

I'm still finding my on-page-voice as this is the first time I've stopped saying I want to write and put my backside into a chair and actually started to put those ideas on paper screen.