NOVAE – SECTOR VIIIА, ЕХТRА MUROS BUILDING (Pavlina Vladkova – pavlina_v@yahoo.com) The explorations were concentrated in the western part of the complex. A grave containing an earring of the 6th century AD, most probably belonging to the basilica’s cemetery, was discovered. Three rooms of the second half of the 4th century AD were partly explored. The northern room has a mortar flooring, the central one is paved with a brick floor, while the flooring of the southern room is not preserved. The walls were built of adobe and lie on a stone plinth. A drain starts from the northern room and passes through the central room. The bottom of the drain is paved with bricks. The drain was covered with stone slabs. Coins, pottery, fragments of glass vessels and fragmentary glass windows were found within the drain. The eastern and central part of another room of the 3rd century AD, which was cut by the drain, was discovered. It has a mortar flooring. The walls were built of adobe with painted mortar plasters. Another room, 4.50 m by 9 m, with hypocaust in its floor and walls, was explored at 4 m to the south. The brick columns of the hypocaust were discovered. Two coins of the first half of the 3rd century AD were found on the floor. They date the destruction of the building to the mid 3rd century AD, presumably during the attacks of the Goths. There are other rooms with hypocaust located to the west and to the south. A pool, 2.40 m by 9 m, with floor of bricks covered with mortar plaster, belonging to the earliest construction period, was explored. The water was drawn out through a terracotta conduit. The absence of hypocaust testifies that this is the cold pool of baths. A bronze clasp and three terracotta lamps were found on the bottom of the pool and they date the building to the 2nd century AD, most probably before AD 170 when the early buildings in Novae were destroyed during the attacks of the Costoboci.