ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR VRATSA (Nartsis Torbov – natorbov@abv.bg, Alexandra Petrova) The explorations were carried out in a sector situated to the northeast of Late Antique Church 2. A corner of a building was discovered, built during the second half of the 4th century AD and dismantled during the Middle Ages. The inner side of the fortification wall discovered in Trench АС1/3 was explored. It was built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar and was preserved at 2.50 m in height. Grave 5 in the cemetery of the 12th – 14th centuries situated at Church 1 was explored in Trench АС1/4. Wall 1 was explored, built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar, 1 m wide, 20.40 m long and preserved up to 40 cm in height. The wall was probably built at the end of the 14th century and protected the structures situated to the south from landslides and falling rocks.