KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Igor Lazarenko) Mediaeval buildings and a square were discovered in the western sector of Kastritsi. Five cobble streets lead to the square. There were buildings from both sides of the streets. Their walls were constructed of cut stones bonded with mud and were 70 – 90 cm wide. The buildings had two or three rooms and some of them had preserved the places of the wooden beams that supported second floors. Two construction periods were specified: the 13th and the 14th century, respectively. Coins and pottery, including sgraffito, were found. A single-nave church with an additionally built narthex was explored. There was a yard to the southeast of the church and parallel rooms arranged in a line, situated to the west of the church and adjoining the fortification wall. There was a corridor to the north of the church and there were parallel buildings arranged in a line from its northern side. The entrances of the parallel buildings were directed towards a street. A building with three rooms, 6 m wide and 21 m long, was explored and a hoard of copper coins of the 14th century was found inside. A building with two rooms was discovered under the mediaeval square. Its walls were 80 cm wide and were constructed of cut stones bonded with clay. The finds included coins of Phocas and Heraclius minted in AD 614, six amphoriskoi, two dolia and two amphorae. The building was covered with a layer containing tegulae, imbrices and burned wooden beams. The finds from the excavations included pottery, copper lamps, finger-rings, crosses encolpia, exagiae, a glass medallion showing Christ Pantocrator, 317 coins of Hadrian, Odessos, Marcianopolis, Probus, Licinius I, Constantine the Great, Crispus, Constantius II, Valentinian I, Valens I, Theodosius I, Arcadius, Honorius, Justin I, Justinian I, Justin II, Tiberius II Constantine, Maurice, Phocas, Heraclius, anonymous Byzantine folles (classes A2, B and G), Alexios I Komnenos, Latin imitations, Michael VIII Palaiologos, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Michael IX Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, the Bulgarian Kings Mitso Asen (1256 – 1263), Theodor Svetoslav (1300 – 1321/1322), Michael III Shishman (1323 – 1330), Ivan Alexander (1331 – 1371), Ivan Shishman (1371 – 1395) and Ivan Sratsimir (1356 – 1396), the Despot of Dobrudzha (Northeastern Bulgaria) Dobrotitsa (1366 – 1385), Francesco Dandolo, the Serbian Kings Stephen Uroš IV Dušan (1331 – 1355) and Stephen Uroš V (1346 – 1371), the Despot of Epirus John II Orsini (1323 – 1335), the Prince of Walachia Mircea the Elder (1386 – 1418), the Prince of Moldavia Petru II Muşat (1375 – 1391), the Golden Horde, the Ottoman Sultans Murad I and Bayazid I, and Emir Syuleiman (1402 – 1410).