ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF POKROVNIK (Iliya Kulov – iliakulov@yahoo.com, Mark Stefanovich) The explorations continued in sectors A and B. A layer accumulated after the first burning of the building was reached. Part of it was explored in sector A. During the reconstruction of the building, the southern wall was replaced at 2.48 m to the north and stones from the destroyed southern wall of the first construction period were reused. The preserved length of the wall is c. 11 m and its height is up to 1.20 m. The western wall of the building is totally destroyed in the explored part of sector A. Two inhumation burials of the Late Antiquity were discovered in sector B: grave No. 2 containing an adult and grave No. 3 containing a child. A bronze finger-ring was found on the right hand of the adult buried in grave No. 2. A wall of the Late Antiquity oriented north – south and 2.50 m in length was discovered in the central part of sector B. A fragment of tile was found in the northern part of the wall. Presumably, the debris of the earlier building was reused during the Roman period for construction of a tumulus. Such a practice was registered with the Late Bronze Age building explored in Kamenska Chuka locality near Blagoevgrad. The finds from the excavations include two spindle whorls, a sherd and a fragmentary small vessel of the Late Bronze Age.