ABRITUS (Galena Radoslavova – galena_rz@abv.bg) Thirty-two inhumation burials, some of them overlapping, were explored in the southern necropolis of Abritus dated to the 3rd – 5th centuries AD. The graves were pits, a single-step pit (Grave No. 27), two-steps pits (Graves Nos. 35, 51, 52), pits surrounded with stones or roof-tiles (Graves Nos. 21, 42, 48, 49), graves covered with bricks and roof-tiles (Graves Nos. 23 and 45) and a pit covered with stones (Grave No. 46). The iron nails discovered in most graves indicated that the deceased were rested in wooden coffins. The predominant orientation of the deceased was with head to the west (22 burials), two deceased were oriented with their heads to the northwest, two deceased were oriented with their heads to the north, one with his head to the south and one to the east. The arms of the deceased were usually stretched along their bodies. Grave goods were discovered in 11 burials: in Grave No. 51 – a ceramic cup of the 2nd – 4th century AD, in Grave No. 52 – a glass cup of the 4th – 5th century AD, a gold pendant of the second half of the 3rd century AD, a bronze belt buckle of the 4th – 5th century AD, a silver belt appliqué, a spearhead and a hoard of seven bronze coins of AD 324 – 340, in Grave No. 23 – a bronze belt buckle of the 4th century AD. An iron belt buckle, and a belt buckle and a belt appliqué with Sarmatian origin of the 4th century AD originated from destroyed burials. Other grave goods included eight bronze and one glass bracelets of the 4th century AD, two earrings (a bronze and a silver one), a silver finger-ring, glass beads with Germanic origins of the 4th century AD, an iron finger-ring with a carneol intaglio showing a rooster of the 3rd century AD, and 21 coins (a siliqua of Valens in Grave No. 41, and coins outside the burial pits: a fourrée denarius of Seprimius Severus, two Roman colonial bronze coins of Marcianopolis of the end of the 2nd – first half of the 3rd century AD, coins of the 4th century AD, coins of AD 375 – 498, a coin of Justin I).