EXPLORATIONS IN THE ‘MONASTERY OF MOSTICH’ IN PRESLAV (Kazimir Popkonstantinov – popkonstantinov@yahoo.com, Rossina Kostova) A funerary inscription of Chargubilya Mostich, inscribed sherds containing the names of Saints whose relics were kept in the church, lead seals of Georgi the Bulgarian Synkellos, etc. were discovered during the previous excavations in the monastery. It was found that the monastery was built over a settlement and in addition, a cemetery was explored. The territory of the complex was occupied from the 9th to 13th centuries. The nature of the site dynamically changed: semi-dug sunken-floored houses during the 9th century, buildings during the first half of the 10th century, building of a church and abandoning the complex during the beginning of the 11th century, and a cemetery above the debris during the 12th – 13th centuries. In fact, the ‘Monastery of Mostich’ has developed from a secular domain to a holy cloister. The foundations of the buildings in the eastern and southern sectors of the monastery were traced out during the excavations that were renewed in 2005. The foundations of the church and the ‘chambers’ that contained the relics of the Saints were cleaned up. An elbow bone was found in the presbytery, but no burial was discovered. The explorations of the foundations of the building that preceded the church continued. Foundations of a building were discovered to the southeast of the church. Sherds of the 10th – 13th centuries were found. Foundations of a building were traced out to the east of the church. Separate sherds of the 10th – 11th centuries were found.