PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) Two midden pits were explored in Trench No. II. The pit in Square 341 contained bones from an ox and a horse. The pit in Square 358 cut the foundation trench of a timber building and the row of postholes for timber columns. The pit contained sherds of AD 970 – 1020. The sunken-floored House No. 8 dated to the same period. A ramshackle timber building was documented in Squares 342 and 358. Animal bones and sherds of the 9th century AD were found. Thirteen postholes of a timber building were discovered, containing sherds of the 9th century AD and arranged in a row oriented north – south and long 10 m. The building was situated at c. 5.50 m from the eastern brick fortification wall of the Citadel and parallel to it. Six postholes of timber columns, 35 – 40 cm in diameter, were discovered in Trenches 341 and 357. The pits contained sherds of the 9th century AD. They belonged to a timber building situated at c. 6 m from the eastern brick fortification wall of the Citadel and parallel to it. The floor of the timber building was explored in Trench No. III. It was paved with bricks. Eight postholes of timber beams that supported the roof were discovered. The building dated to AD 850 – 900. The finds from the excavations included a lead seal of Nikephoros Philokalos – a Byzantine strategos of the 11th century, a lead core of a seal that was not struck and a clay counter for gaming.