EXPLORATIONS IN MESAMBRIA (Anelia Bozhkova – aneliabozkova@yahoo.com, Hristo Preshlenov, Metodi Daskalov, Petya Kiyashkina) The explorations were carried out on the peninsula. The occupation strata in sector A reached down to 3 m in depth. Six pits, containing pottery of the Early Iron Age and the Classical period, were explored. Occupation strata, walls and destruction layers dated to the 3rd – 1st centuries BC were discovered. There are vessels from Pergamum and Ephesus among the pottery. An Early Byzantine building, c. 6.50 m in length, was explored. The finds include fragments of pottery, amphorae, glass vessels and window glass. A stratum with Early Byzantine materials, dated by coins of Emperors Leo I and Tiberius II Constantine, was registered close to the building. An Early Byzantine kiln for building ceramics was discovered. Twenty-one Early Byzantine Christian graves arranged in two rows were explored. There were child graves among those of the adults. The grave constructions include stone chambers covered with stone slabs, simple stone chambers and pits. Two silver earrings of the first half of the 7th century AD were found. Seventeen pits containing pottery, coins and finds of the end of the 11th – 13th centuries were explored. Mediaeval occupation strata, two Late Hellenistic walls, dated by pottery and amphora stamps, three pits, one of them dated to the Classical period according to black-gloss sherds, and Archaic sherds of the late 6th century BC were discovered in sector C. Six pits, containing fragmentary and intact pots, sgraffito bowls, amphorae, more than 30 terracotta tripods and coins of the second half of the 12th and 13th centuries, were explored in sector E. A domestic oven was discovered. Eighteen Christian graves, dated to the second half of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries, were explored. About 50% of the buried were children. Earrings were found in two graves.