PRESLAV (Angel Konakliev – angeltg@abv.bg, Stela Doncheva) The explorations were concentrated in Quarters 161 and 162. The eastern part of the northern fence of the churchyard of the basilica and the pavement close to it were discovered in Square 320. A segment of a water-conduit, 15.60 m long, was discovered in Trench 196. The stone slabs of the pavement in the churchyard of the basilica were arranged at 40 cm above the water-conduit. The southern part of the building, documented in 2010, was discovered. The wall of the building was built of stone slabs bonded with mortar, 95 cm wide and 17 m long. Twenty-four pits were explored, containing Late Mediaeval sherds, marble elements from floor mosaics and scyphate coins. Two pits contained segments from cornices with floral decoration, one pit contained an ashlar with inscription and another pit contained a segment of a marble column from the Roman period with partly preserved Latin inscription. The finds from the excavations included bronze and lead crosses, bronze belt points and appliqués, earrings, glass bracelets, a pendant, 155 coins: anonymous Byzantine folles of the Class A1 (AD 969 – 976), the Class A2 (AD 976 – 1030/1035) and the Class B (AD 1030/1035 – 1042), billon coins of Manuel I Komnenos, coins of Andronikos II Palaiologos with Michael IX Palaiologos, Bulgarian imitations of the Type C, Latin imitations of the Type A, coins of John II Orsini, Despot of Epirus, copper scyphate coins of the Bulgarian Kings Konstantin Asen (1257 – 1277) and Ivan Alexander (1331 – 1371), an Ottoman silver akçe of Sultan Murad I and a copper mangir of Sultan Murad II.