ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR VRATSA (Nartsis Torbov – natorbov@abv.bg) The explorations of Church No. 2 continued. It was built at the end of the 5th century AD and existed through the first half of the 6th century AD. Graves Nos. 2, 3, and 4 were discovered in the apse and they belonged to children. Grave No. 4 was partly destroyed during the construction of the church. The graves belonged to a Christian cemetery, which existed through the 4th – 5th centuries AD, before the construction of the church. The apse of the church was built of cut stones bonded with mortar. The southern wall of the church probably belonged to an earlier structure and the apse was built over it. A wall of the 12th – 14th centuries was documented in front of the entrance of the church.