ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF IVANOVO (Svetlana Venelinova – lihnida_sv@abv.bg, Yavor Boyadziev, Maria Gurova) Building No. 1 was explored, situated in Layer VII and 16 m by 6 m in size. There was a line of postholes 25 – 30 cm in diameter along its eastern wall, situated over burned debris of an earlier building. There were two lines of postholes: the outer line of postholes 20 – 40 cm in diameter and the inner one with thin posts, along the northern and the western walls. There was a line of postholes 20 – 35 cm in diameter along the southern wall, built of clay mixed with straws. The wall was plastered at least 25 times and most of the plaster was painted with ochre decorated with lines and curves of white paint. The building consisted of three rooms divided by two walls. The plaster of the platform in Room 1 was partly dismantled. The plaster covered a clay plaque with imprints from closely arranged wooden beams. A second level of transverse wooden posts was documented beneath the beams. The platform was 30 cm high and was constructed over the floor of the ground floor, covered with carbonized wooden beams. Debris from the second floor was discovered over the floor. A platform, 3.60 m by 1.60 m in size and 40 cm high, was discovered in Room 2. The two inner walls dividing the rooms were 40 cm thick, constructed of wattle-and-daub, plastered more than 14 times and painted with red ochre and white paint. The finds included ceramic vessels: bowls, vases, pots and dishes (Kodzhadermen Culture, Phase I), belemnites, bone tools, flint artifacts (mostly produced from flint of the Ravno and the Kriva Reka Types): plates, a scraper, a cutter, a spearhead, flakes. The flint tools were used for treatment of leather and subsequently reused as blades of sickles.