EXCAVATIONS IN THE NORTHEASTERN PART OF THE PATRIARCHATE OF PRESLAV (Dimitar Ovcharov, Angel Konakliev – angeltg@abv.bg, Stela Doncheva) Another 25 m of the surrounding wall were explored and so, its total length known until the present moment became 105 m. The excavations of the building consisting of neighboring rooms arranged in a line continued. Rooms Nos. 8, 9 and 10 were thoroughly explored, while room No. 11 was partly excavated. The foundations of the rooms were preserved, but only several blocks of the wall were discovered in situ. The finds include several intact and a number of fragmentary ceramic vessels, iron tools, bone appliqués, a lead seal and two lead plates for stamping seals, and a bronze Byzantine coin. The finds date to the 10th and the beginning of the 11th centuries. Most likely, the surrounding wall was destroyed and the building was constructed during the second half of the 10th century AD, shortly before Preslav was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.