ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS IN PRESLAV (Angel Konakliev – angeltg@abv.bg, Stela Doncheva) The explorations were carried out in Sectors 160 – 161. An oven was discovered at 80 – 90 cm in depth. It was built of stone slabs and was 1.60 m long, 90 cm wide and 60 cm high. A water-conduit, 9.80 m long, was explored in trenches 307 and 198. Its terracotta pipes were 15 cm in diameter. Parts of a second water-conduit were documented in trench 189. In addition, part of a third water-conduit, probably related to the baths at the southwestern end of the basilica, was discovered. Two more silver coins, belonging to the hoard discovered in 2008, were found: the first one minted by the Bulgarian King Michael II Asen (1246 – 1256) with his mother Eirene Komnene and the second one minted by Doge Giovanni Dandolo. The finds from the excavations included several anonymous Byzantine folles, Late Mediaeval coins, 20 para minted by Sultan Mahmud II in Constantinople in 1838 – 1839, a lead seal showing Saint Mary, a bronze finger-ring with a four-leafs rosette, fragments from glass bracelets, a bronze belt buckle and appliqués, terracotta spindle-whorls, iron knives and spatulas, and Late Mediaeval sherds.