ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF TROYANOVO (Boris Borisov – bdborisov@abv.bg, Julieta Giuleva) A house, four warehouses and 12 midden pits were explored on an area of 1300 sq. m. The house measured 6.25 m by 3.55 m and was built of wooden posts and wattle-and-daub. Its floor was plastered with trampled clay. A hearth was discovered, dug out at 35 cm beneath the floor level. Roof-tiles and roughly-cut stones were discovered, which probably had held down the straw roof. The finds from the house comprised a terracotta candlestick, a terracotta weight from fishing net, a small iron knife, a bronze finger-ring, a bronze earring, an iron clamp, a fragment from a glass bracelet, fragmentary ceramic vessel decorated with red paint of the second half of the 12th century. Warehouse No. 10 measured 2.50 m by 2.40 m, No. 11 – 2.15 m by 2.35 m, No. 8 – 2.95 m by 2.55 m and No. 9 – 4.50 m by 3.85 m. The walls of the warehouses were constructed of wooden posts and wattle-and-daub and their floor were plastered with trampled clay. Three warehouses contained storage-pits for grain. The finds from the excavations comprised knives, spatulas, terracotta spindle whorls, arrowheads, fragment from glass bracelets, sherds of the second half of the 12th century, including with aureate and red slip, glazed, sgraffito and painted, two scyphates, one of them minted by Isaac II Angelos. The settlement was probably abandoned by its residents during the beginning of the 1190s due to the Third Crusade when other Byzantine settlements were abandoned as well.