EXPLORATIONS NEAR HARMANLI (Tatyana Kancheva–Ruseva – ruseva_t@abv.bg, Veselin Ignatov, Krasimir Velkov, Konstantin Gospodinov) A house and three pits of the Late Bronze Age (1600 – 1100 BC) were explored. The house is rectangular and is built of lath-and-plaster, measuring 4.60 m by 4.30 m. A terracotta model of a wheel, a jug, a small cup, flint tools and millstones were found. Sherds, a jug, spindle whorls, lids, a stone mace, flint tools and burned fragments of lath-and-plaster were found in the pits. Four buildings and 60 ritual pits of the Late Iron Age were discovered. The buildings have ellipsoid layout and are partly dug into the ground. They measure up 14.50 m by 7.30 m and are as much as 1.10 m in depth. Pottery, a spindle whorl, a terracotta phallus and millstones were found. The pits are up to 2.20 m in diameter and as much as 1.52 m in depth. They contain small pieces of charcoal, ash, fragmentary burned lath-and-plaster, sherds, spindle whorls, weights for fishing-net, millstones, bronze jewelry, small iron knives, a bronze arrowhead and animal bones. A bronze coin of Philip of Macedon and fragments of terracotta eschara were found outside the constructions. The finds date to the 5th – 4th centuries BC. An ellipsoid granary of the Roman period, measuring 5.80 m by 4.80 m, was explored. Twenty-four pits were discovered inside the granary, three of them containing bottoms of dolia. Farming building No. 2 was explored. It measures 41.50 m by 20 m and is partly dug into the ground down to 1.50 m in depth. Five ovens were discovered in the building. Sherds, spindle whorls, loom weights, a votive relief of the Thracian Horseman, millstones, finger-rings, bracelets and iron knives of the 2nd – 4th centuries AD were found. Four mediaeval houses and 13 pits were discovered. The houses are rectangular and measure up to 3.85 m by 3.50 m. Ceramic vessels, arrowheads and small knives of the 9th – 10th centuries AD were found.