PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) The excavations continued in the area between the Large Timber Building and the Shelter with floor paved with bricks, to the east of the well in the eastern part of the Citadel. Trenches of foundations and postholes of timber buildings and fences dated to c. 700 – 960 AD with at least four construction phases were explored. The explorations of the trench of the foundations of the so-called Long Timber Building continued and so far 11 m of its length was excavated. A midden pot was discovered, containing fragments of limestone ashlars, bricks and roof-tiles, pieces of mortar, animal bones, sherds of the first half of the 11th century AD and two anonymous Byzantine folles of Class A2 (AD 976 – 1030/1035). An underground cellar 2.80 m by 1.50 m in size was discovered. Postholes of timber posts that supported the roof of the cellar were documented. Sherds of the first half of the 11th century AD were found in the cellar. Four parallel trenches oriented east – west were discovered in the southeastern part of the Citadel, filled with a large number of animal bones, mostly from oxen and horses, debris, a sherd from an amphora with part of dipinto inscription and two anonymous Byzantine folles of Class A2 (AD 976 – 1030/1035). The four trenches probably were foundations of the inner timber fences in the Citadel and dated to c. AD 970 – 1050.