ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TROYANOVO (Boris Borisov – bdborisov@abv.bg, Gergana Sheyleva) Two farm buildings were explored in the Mediaeval settlement. Building No. 6 was 3.80 m by 3.70 m in size, with walls constructed with wattle-and-daub and supporting timber posts, 12 – 28 cm in diameter. Building No. 7 was 2.30/2.40 m by 3.20/3.90 m in size. Twenty-seven midden pits were explored, 1.05 – 2.90 m in diameter and 0.30 – 1.60 m in depth. The finds from the excavations included knives, spatulas, terracotta spindle whorls, jewelry (mostly fragments from glass bracelets), sherds of the 12th century, including from pottery with aureate and red slip and glazed and sgraffito pottery, two scyphates of Isaac II Angelos. The settlement was probably abandoned in the beginning of the 1190s due to the invasion of the crusaders of the Third Crusade, like other settlements in that time.