ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TROYANOVO (Boris Borisov – bdborisov@abv.bg, Julieta Giuleva) In the Southern Sector, five pits of the Late Iron Age were excavated, containing Thracian sherds, pieces of charcoal and fragmentary burned wattle-and-daub. Some of the pits are overlapping, while Late Iron Age Pits Nos. 25 and 26 were cut by Late Roman Pit No. 23. A patch was discovered, containing animal bones and red-gloss sherds of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD. A pottery kiln was explored. The pit in front of the kiln was 70 cm deep and was accommodated under a shelter or within a ramshackle building 2.70 m by 3.10 m in size. Sherds of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD were found, including from pottery of foederati. Mediaeval midden Pits Nos. 43 and 44 were excavated. Mediaeval House No. 1 was sunken-floored, built of wattle-and-daub, with an oven. In the Northern Sector, five Mediaeval houses were explored, one of them sunken-floored. They measured 2.70 – 5 m by 2.40 – 2.94 m, had ovens or hearths and were built of wattle-and-daub. Five Mediaeval warehouses, 21 pits and two kilns were excavated as well. The finds from the excavations included fragments from glass bracelets, spindle-whorls, small iron knives and weights of fishing nets.