ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PRESLAV (Angel Konakliev – angeltg@abv.bg, Stela Doncheva) The explorations in the area between the early wall, the building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line and the basilica continued. The stone slabs of the later pavement and the wall of the building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line were discovered. The foundation of the wall is 85 cm deep and 1.50 m wide. There were wooden posts under the foundation penetrating to a depth of 30 – 40 cm. The wall of an earlier building with a complex layout and its foundation are situated under the later building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line. The wall and its foundation were built of ashlars bonded with mortar. Pilasters and an entrance were documented in the eastern part of the earlier building. The pavement inside and around the earlier building consisted of stone slabs. Two drains were explored: one built of stone slabs and another constructed of bricks. Two lead seals and Byzantine coins of the 11th century were found inside the drain built of slabs. The two pits were thoroughly explored. One of them was 1.60 m in diameter and 70 cm in depth and contained fragmentary glass bracelets, a pearl cross and 47 coins. The finds from the archaeological excavations include a decorated bone awl, appliqués, belt points, fragmentary glass and bronze vessels, a bronze encolpion, bronze crosses, glass bracelets, finger-rings, Byzantine anonymous coins and scyphates, lead seals and a bronze exagia.