ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR VRATSA (Nartsis Torbov – natorbov@abv.bg) The exploration of Church No. 2 continued. It was built at the end of the 5th century AD during the reign of Anastasius I. Later on, an annex of the church was built. Traces from fire were documented. The church was probably burned during some Barbarian invasion after AD 532, judging from a follis of Justinian I found in 2010 and minted in AD 527 – 532 in Constantinople. The existence of a Late Antique building was documented and a wall constructed of cut stones bonded with mortar and 70 cm wide was discovered. Another later wall was discovered above it, constructed of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar. Both buildings existed until the reign of Zeno, judging from a coin discovered. During the 12th – 13th centuries a fortification wall was constructed over the northern wall of the church and its annex. The fortification wall was built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar and was 1.50 m wide.