ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TROYANOVO (Boris Borisov – bdborisov@abv.bg, Julieta Giuleva) A dug out structure was explored, containing two bronze fibulae, a ceramic dish, a coin of Constantine II, two weights from fishing net and sherds of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD. A sunken-floored house with an oven was discovered and the finds included an iron chisel, two fragments from glass bracelets and sherds of the 11th – 12th centuries. Four Thracian ritual pits of the 4th century BC were explored. Pit No. 15 contained Thracian sherds and sherds from a Greek red-figure krater. A clay altar was discovered on the bottom of Pit No. 18. The pit contained a ceramic dish, a small jug, two small cups, two amphorae from Chios, a terracotta spindle whorls, a terracotta loom weights, a fragment from portable terracotta hearth decorated with Meanders and fragments from clay eschara. Three Late Antique pits and four Mediaeval midden pits containing sherds of the 11th – 12th centuries were also explored.