EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BELEVREN (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg) The dolmen is situated in a tumulus, which is 15 m in diameter. It consists of two chambers, a dromos and a façade. The burial chamber is 2.37 m in length, 1.60 – 1.80 m in width and 1.66 – 1.78 m in height. The walls were constructed of stone slabs. There is an entrance cut in the southern slab. The roof consists of a horizontal slab. The front chamber is 1.25 m in length, 1.55 – 1.65 m in width and 1.45 m in height. The walls were constructed of slabs. There is an entrance cut in the southern wall. The dromos was built of stones with a bonding medium of mud. It is 2 m in width and 1.40 m in length. The façade is 8.70 m in length. It was built of uneven stones bonded with mud and slabs. The dolmen was looted. Sherds of c. 25 Early Iron Age (11th – 6th centuries BC) vessels, decorated with cannelures, pseudo-Buckels and incised triangles, were found in front of the façade. Sherds of two or three Late Iron Age (5th – 1st centuries BC) wheel-made vessels of the ‘Thracian grey pottery’ were found in front of the façade. Four bronze fibulae were found inside the dromos and in front of it. The dolmen was built in the beginning of the 8th century BC and was used until the 7th century BC. A tumulus, 9 m in diameter and 1.10 m in height, was explored. No grave construction was found. A platform measuring 2 m by 2 m and built of uneven stones was discovered on the level of the ancient terrain. Two anthropomorphic terracotta figurines and two ceramic vessels, decorated with stamped rhombs, circles with tangents and triangles, were found. The tumulus was constructed in the end of the 10th – 9th century BC. Two silver pectorals and a bronze fibula were buried in the tumulus’ center at the end of the 7th – 6th century BC.