ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR BANSKO (Vladimir Baryakov – vlbaryakov@mail.bg) Several rooms of the 4th – 6th centuries AD were explored. Also, several buildings adjoining the inner and the outer side of the fortification wall were excavated. The finds included sherds, fragments from window glass and glass cups, coins, mostly nummi minimi, from Constantius II to Anastasius I, including two coins of Theodosius II minted in Constantinople and Siscia, a brick with Latin cursive inscription that reads: PAIB, which is the abbreviated Thracian personal name Paib(es), a local silver Rhodope imitation of Venetian grosso of the 1330s. The Late Antique settlement was occupied by Christian population, probably with mixed origins: Thracians and perhaps Goths.