AGATHOPOLIS (Andrei Aladzhov – alajov@gmail.com, Stanimir Stoichev) Three strata were documented in front of the fortification gate. The upper one was 50 cm thick, situated beneath the mortar plaster of the first construction period of the gate and containing sherds and fragmentary building ceramics. Late Antique pottery predominated and the stratum dated from the mid 4th to the end of the 5th centuries AD. The lower stratum dated to the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD. Luxury red-gloss vessels predominated. The lowest stratum was 10 cm thick and the Roman luxury pottery predominated there with fewer Hellenistic sherds from luxury vessels. Traces from settlement of the 5th – 1st centuries BC were documented. A stratum of the 11th – 13th centuries was explored inside the inner fortification tower of the gate. Sherds from amphorae and two dolia were found. The tower was built during AD 900 – 950 and functioned until the end of the 13th century. The interior of the Late Roman building was explored. A layer of debris was excavated, dated to the end of the 5th century AD by coins of Anastasius I Dicorus and leveled during the construction of the fortification wall. A layer containing fragmentary roof-tiles, burned wooden boards and burned soil was documented beneath, dated to c. AD 450 by coins of Theodosius II. The lowest layer was leveled and it preceded the construction of the building, containing finds mostly of the 3rd – 4th centuries AD. The debris of the western room of the Late Roman building was discovered, consisting of roughly-cut stones, fragmentary bricks and roof-tiles, slag, iron fragments, lead melts, five bronze pins and two amphorae. Three strata were explored to the west of the Late Roman building: Late Antique one (synchronous to the fortress), Roman and Late Hellenistic of the 2nd – 1st centuries BC.