PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Hristina Stoyanova) The explorations along the southern fortification wall close to the entrance of the southeastern circular tower were completed in Sector I. Three trenches for timber scaffoldings for the construction of the fortification wall, three places for stirring mortar and a Christian burial of an adult were explored. A section of the northern wall that closed the southern wing of the long stone building was discovered in Sector II. The building was part of an architectural complex dated to the second half of the 10th century. An entrance, 1 m wide, was documented at 14 m to the west of the northeastern corner of the southern wing. A layer with charcoal, iron slag and pottery of the 9th – beginning of the 10th centuries was explored under the long stone building. Nineteen pits of wooden posts with pads of bricks on their bottoms and containing sherds of the 9th century AD were explored. The long timber building of the Capital period of Pliska is the earliest structure in Sector III. Three pits, initially used for storage and later as midden pits, were explored. Judging from the finds, including a handle of a bronze vessel in the shape of a head of a dragon, the pits dated to the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th centuries. A room with 26 pits for dolia in its floor was explored in Sector IV. It was a storage room of a large timber building. Judging from the pottery, the room dated to the end of the 8th – first half of the 9th century AD. A domestic oven and six storage pits, containing pottery of the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th century, were explored. The two trenches of the long timber building were documented. A fragment of a marble relief showing a female figure was found. A sector of a sunken-floored house was explored and later pits with material of the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th century, which cut the house, were documented. A trench for the long timber building was documented close to the eastern fortification gate and pits for a timber construction that preceded the gate were discovered.