PRESLAV (Zhivko Aladzhov – naim@naim.bg) The explorations of the street, directed to the south and beginning from the southern square of the Patriarchate, continued. A building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line was situated along the eastern side of the street. The building and the street bordered the western side of a second southern yard of the Patriarchate. The building was over 50 m long and had a façade with a timber porch to the east, as evidenced by the stone bases that supported wooden posts. The walls of the building were 1.50 m wide, built of stones bonded with mortar. The baths of AD 900 – 925, which were explored during the 1960s, were documented. The debris of ramshackle buildings of the 11th – 12th centuries were dismantled. The finds included a large quantity of animal bones with traces from butchering and a double iron hook that was used for hanging, flaying and cutting up animals. These buildings were probably butcheries. Three midden pits were explored and three Christian graves were discovered on the site. The finds from the excavations included sherds of the 9th – 12th centuries, a gilded copper cross – appliqué from a liturgical book, a bronze medallion with an image and an inscription, and a bronze medallion showing a cross on the one side and the Proto-Bulgarian symbol IYI on its other side, which is related to the period when the Proto-Bulgars were converted to Christianity in AD 864 – 865 when the Pagan and the Christian symbolism coexisted.