ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Hristina Stoyanova) The explorations of trenches and postholes of timber buildings, stone buildings, sunken-floored houses and midden pits, dated from the 8th to the second half of the 11th centuries, continued over an area of 450 sq. m in sectors 1 – 4. Postholes and a trench of the southeastern corner of the long timber building, which preceded the construction of the fortification wall, were explored in sector 1. Ten quadrilateral postholes located at 2.50 – 3 m from each other were discovered in the trench and sherds from the end of the 8th – first half of the 9th centuries were found. A pavement of bricks, production kilns and postholes for timber posts which were 30 – 45 cm in diameter, were discovered in sector 2. A big midden pit and a sunken-floored house were explored in sector 3 and pottery, Byzantine coins and a lead seal of the first half of the 11th century were found. An occupation layer and structures of the post-capital period of Pliska were explored in sector 4. The finds date to the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th centuries and include pottery, an umbo-like appliqué, terracotta spindle whorls, a copper bracelet, a bronze pendant-amulet showing a horseman, a copper finger-ring with encrusted small glass balls and a glass bracelet. A second section of the long and narrow stone building, discovered in 2003, was explored. The building dates to the end of the 10th – beginning of the 11th centuries and is situated at 6 m to the west from the preceding long timber building.