ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TROYANOVO (Boris Borisov – bdborisov@abv.bg, Gergana Sheyleva) In 2002, two houses, one farm building and three pits (two Mediaeval midden pits and a Thracian ritual pit of the 5th – 1st centuries BC) were explored. The settlement dated to the 11th – 12th centuries. During mining activities carried out over the next years, houses and farm buildings and midden pits were destroyed. In 2011, one house, four farm buildings and 12 midden pits were explored. The house was sunken-floored, with walls of wattle-and-daub and roof covered with thatch pressed with roughly-cut stones. The hearth was situated in the middle of the house. A pit-storage for grain dug out under the floor was discovered. The house was burned and later restored. Two farm buildings were constructed on the ground and two were sunken-floored. They were built of wattle-and-daub with roofs covered with thatch. Each building accommodated two or three pit-storages for grain. The distance between the buildings was 0.80 – 2 m. Foundations of fences with entrances were discovered between all buildings. The finds from the excavations included sickles, knives, spatulae, terracotta spindle whorls, arrowheads, two scyphate coins (one of them minted by Isaac II Angelos), pottery, including with aureate and red slip, glazed, sgraffito and painted. The settlement was probably abandoned in the beginning of the 1190s because of the military campaigns of the crusaders.