PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) The explorations in Trench XX in the central part of the Small Timber Fortification continued. Different dug out structures were explored, situated under the debris of stone buildings of the middle of the 11th century and the relevant stratum containing anonymous Byzantine coins and pottery. Five Christian burials of the 11th century were discovered. The deceased in Grave No. 1 was a young man with wounds on his skull who survived some time after being wounded. Fourteen sunken-floored houses were explored, part of them with clay ovens and others with stoves. A kiln was discovered in House No. 8 and it had a funnel for compressing the air that entered its opening. The finds that were discovered in the houses and the storage pits included awls, terracotta spindle whorls, metal jewelry and pottery of the 10th – beginning of the 11th centuries. A reservoir was documented, 8.50 m by 8 m in size and over 5.50 m in depth. A rectangular stone shaft was discovered on its bottom with a well dug out beneath. At some moment, the reservoir was filled with debris and sherds, the latest ones dated to the first half of the 11th century, including from Pecheneg cauldrons. Remains from baths of the end of the 8th – first half of the 9th centuries AD with a water-conduit of terracotta pipes were documented. Postholes and trenches from foundations of timber constructions of the end of the 8th – first half of the 9th centuries AD were discovered. Trenches for the foundations of a large timber building were documented, containing sherds of the first half of the 9th century AD. Most timber constructions were built after the stone fortification wall of Pliska was constructed, but some of them were synchronous to the Small and the Large Timber Fortifications. A residence was built on the site during the first decades of the 9th century AD, at the latest.