ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PRESLAV (Zhivko Aladzhov – naim@naim.bg) It was found that the large building, consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line, was destroyed and the stones from its structure robbed. The destruction probably occurred after the middle of the 10th century, maybe after Preslav was conquered by Sviatoslav I Igorevich, the Prince of Kievan Rus, in AD 970. In the excavated area, the mediaeval street turned to the east and it probably reached the southern gate of the so-called third fortification wall. Debris from the 12th – 13th centuries (parts of houses, a domestic oven and midden pits) were documented in the southeastern corner of the excavated area. The finds from the excavations included a copper coin of the Bulgarian King Ivan Shishman (1371 – 1395), a bronze cross-encolpion, containing a piece of wood and showing crucified Christ and Saint Mary Oranta, which was found together with coins of the first decades of the 11th century, a circular medallion with two faces of the beginning of the 11th century, showing crucified Christ and Saint Mary Oranta, and a small ritual bell produced of a copper alloy with high content of silver.