ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF IVANOVO (Svetlana Venelinova – lihnida_sv@abv.bg, Maria Gurova) The southern part of burned Building No. 1, 12.80 m by 6.50 m in size, was explored. The house was situated in Layer 7 in the central part of the settlement mound. Fragmentary wattle-and-daub, some of them with imprints from wooden posts, was discovered. The interior consisted of a larger northern room and smaller central and southern rooms equal in size, a L-like corridor with an entrance and an anteroom located in the southwestern corner of the house. The occupants of the house probably had access to the second floor via a timber staircase located in the anteroom. The ground floor was covered with timber planks arranged over trampled clay. Two platforms were situated in the northern and the central rooms of the house, constructed of timber plastered with clay. A bottom of an oven was discovered in the central room. Two postholes, each one 25 cm in diameter, and nine smaller postholes in between were discovered, belonging to the southern wall of the house. Postholes of the eastern wall were documented as well. The western wall was 90 cm wide and the other walls were 50/70 cm wide. Two timber beams that supported the second floor were documented in the northern room. The outer faces of all walls in the building were colored with ochre and white paint. The finds comprise pottery of Phase I of Kodzhadermen Culture and flint artifacts (retouched flakes, flakes, scrapers, a cutter, a retouched splinter), some of them produced from flint of the Ravno Type and the Kriva Reka Type. Some flint artifacts were used for cutting and scraping leather and cutting plants, while others were blades from sickles.