ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF IVANOVO (Svetlana Venelinova – lihnida_sv@abv.bg, Maria Gurova) The excavations continued in Trenches J10-11 and K10-11 in the central part of the settlement mound. Two houses were discovered in Stratum VII. Debris of a burned house was explored over an area 6 m by 6.50 m in size. A clay platform was discovered in its northern part. Two postholes were explored in the central part of the house. Debris from supposed second floor was documented. Postholes, arranged in a line and accommodated in a trench, were explored to the north of the burned house. They probably belonged to the eastern wall of a second house. An earlier layer with traces from fire and debris, belonging to Stratum VI, was documented under both houses. Bones from red deer, boars, roe, sheep, ox and pigs were found in the burned house. The bones from ox and red deer prevailed. The finds from the excavations included flint scrapers, plates and fragments, a bracelet from Spondylus, sherds from ceramic vessels synchronous to the earliest stage of Kodzhadermen Culture.