ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PLOVDIV (Vesselina Vandova – v.vandova@abv.bg) The site is located to the southwest of Ploskata Mogila Settlement Mound, which was explored with sondages in the beginning of the 1970s. In 2015, destroyed layers were explored down to 1 m in depth in Sector I, containing mixed material of the Early Chalcolithic period, the Early Bronze Age, the 1st millennium BC and the Roman period. A stratum containing finds of the Early Chalcolithic period and single sherds of the Late Neolithic period was explored beneath. Destroyed layers were explored down to 1.10 m in depth in Sector II, containing mixed material. A stratum containing finds of the Early Chalcolithic period was explored beneath. Early Chalcolithic pits and dug out structures were explored in both sectors, containing sherds, fragments from anthropomorphic terracotta figurines, flint, stone and bone tools, fragments from burned wattle-and-daub, animal bones and single Late Neolithic finds. The flint artifacts included nine typological tools, 11 flakes and five splinters. The retouched flakes prevailed. Two flakes were produced from flint of the Ravno Type and displayed typical Chalcolithic features. Two flint elements from sickle with traces from use were identified. Pits of the 5th – 3rd centuries BC containing Thracian sherds were discovered. Part of a farm building was explored. Its walls were built in rubble masonry and were 60 cm wide. Eight dolia were discovered. The finds from the farm building dated to the end of the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD.