EXPLORATIONS IN ABRITUS (Galena Radoslavova – galena_rz@abv.bg, Georgi Dzanev) Building VIII is situated on the eastern side of the cardo, which runs alongside the peristyle building with Ionic colonnade. Five rooms were discovered and their total number is ten, including the rooms explored in 2004. The rooms have a plinth, 1.10 m in height and 60 – 70 cm in width, built of stones bonded with mortar. A row of bricks lies above the plinth. A wall of adobe plastered with mortar lies above the row of bricks. The rooms had a second floor. The roof was covered with tegulae and imbrices. The stratigraphic analysis and the coins show that the building was burnt during the attack of the Huns in AD 447 but it was immediately restored. The building was damaged during the Second Gothic Rebellion in AD 487 and again it was restored. The building was burnt during the final demolition of Abritus in AD 586. The western façade of the Late Antique building situated below the atrium of the basilica, within the ‘Early Mediaeval Complex’, was revealed, measuring 18 m. The face of the wall was built of ashlars bonded with mortar. Room No. 4 constructed of stones bonded with mud, 8 m by 4.10 – 5.40 m in size, was discovered next to Room No. 3. An extension with two rooms, situated below Room No. 4, was explored in the atrium of the basilica. Pottery, terracotta lamps, coins (including a coin hoard) of the end of the 4th – end of the 5th centuries AD, horn billets and scrap of copper plate were found in one of the rooms. A workshop functioned there and it was destroyed at the end of the 5th century AD. A corner of a Late Antique house built of stones bonded with mud was explored in the southwestern corner of the atrium of the basilica. The finds are contemporary with the objects found in the neighboring building.