PRESLAV (Angel Konakliev – angeltg@abv.bg, Stela Doncheva) The explorations continued in the northwestern part of the site. A water-conduit was discovered, situated close to the water-conduit documented in 2009. A third water-conduit was discovered to the west of both water-conduits and a pit was explored, containing a huge quantity of iron slag that originated from the metallurgical kiln situated to the east of the water-conduits. The primary northern wall of the fence that surrounded the basilica was documented. It was 11.80 m long, 1.10 m wide and preserved up to 70 cm. The foundation of the wall was constructed of stones bonded with mortar and ashlars, some of them 65 cm by 45 cm by 30 cm in size, were placed on it, while the construction over the ashlars consisted of stone slabs, c. 80 cm by 40 cm in size. The primary pavement of stone slabs, arranged according to the layout of the wall of the fence, was documented. The drain documented in 1990 was situated under the pavement and continued under the wall of the fence. It was 50 – 55 cm wide, 30 cm deep and was built of stone slabs. Twenty-two pits were documented, containing ashlars, sherds and scyphates. A human skeleton and a skeleton of a horse were discovered on the bottom of the pit located in Trench 188. The coins from the excavations included a bronze coin of the 4th century AD, anonymous Byzantine folles of the Classes A1, A2, B and I dated to the beginning of the 11th century, coins of the first half of the 13th century, including Latin imitations mostly of the Type A and Bulgarian imitations, copper coins of the Bulgarian Kings Mitso Asen (1256 – 1257) and Konstantin Tih – Asen (1257 – 1277), a copper coin of the Bulgarian King Ivan Alexander (1331 – 1371) minted in Shumen during the 1370s, coins of the rulers of the Despotate of Epirus, Thessalonica and Thessaly Theodore Comnenus Ducas (1216 – 1230), Manuel Comnenus Ducas (1230 – 1241) and John II Orsini (1323 – 1335), and a silver imitation of a grosso of Giovanni Dandolo.