RESCUE EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF PARTIZANI (Lachezar Lazarov – lacho_laz@yahoo.com) A number of stones, bricks and human bones were found around a construction destroyed by treasure-hunters. During the explorations, it became clear that the building was oriented north – south. The walls were built of well-cut stones with almost square face and with a bonding medium of mortar and were c. 60 cm in width. The western wall was constructed of stone slabs with a bonding medium of mortar. The floor consists of stone slabs that lie on a padding of small stones covered with a mortar. There is a rectangular chamber in the center of the building, which lies at c. 20 cm below the floor level. The floor and the walls are covered with a plaster of mortar. The plaster on the southern and the eastern wall is red in color. The bricks with traces of mortar that were discovered on the surface of the surrounding terrain most likely originated from the destroyed roofing of the building. Sherds from the Late Antiquity and the Early Byzantine period and human bones were found. Presumably, the building was a tomb that could be dated to the 4th – 6th centuries AD.