ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF IVANOVO (Svetlana Venelinova – lihnida_sv@abv.bg, Maria Gurova, Petar Zidarov) A geomagnetic survey of the settlement mound was carried out and rectangular zones were documented. The zones had areas of 25 – 50 sq. m and were arranged in four rows, each row consisting of six zones. They could be interpreted as the layouts of buildings. An anomaly, c. 10 m wide, was documented around the zones and it probably was a ditch that surrounded the settlement. Parallel anomalies, up to 2 m long, were documented to the north, probably graves. A layer of clay was discovered in trench J9 in the eastern periphery of the settlement mound and carbonized wooden planks were arranged on it. A line of postholes was discovered. Clay floor plaster was discovered in trench I8. The burned construction, which covered an area of 28 sq. m and was discovered in trenches J9, J9 and I8, belonged to the floor level of Stratum VI. A pile of stones was discovered above the construction and burned clay plaster from a floor of a house situated in Stratum VII was explored above the pile. An occupation level with wooden planks, not burned, was partly discovered in trench N11 in Stratum 2 in the northern periphery of the settlement mound. A timber floor was explored in Stratum 4 in trench M11. The finds from the excavations included pottery and 41 flint artifacts (retouched plates, scrapers, cutters, a combined tool, flakes and a core), including blades from sickles and tools for leather production and plants cutting. The archaeobotanical analysis found the presence of Triticum monococcum, Triticum dicoccum, barley, vetch and oak timber, used for the construction of the houses.