EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SARNEVO (Krum Bacvarov – krum.bacvarov@googlemail.com, Milena Tonkova) Debris from the Late Neolithic period, Thracian sherds and an amphora-like vessel of the second phase of the Early Iron Age (8th – 6th centuries BC), a bronze coin of the Odrysian King Seuthes III (c. 330 – 300 BC), a fragment of a black-gloss kantharos of the West Slope type of the beginning of the 3rd century BC and Late Antique bronze coins of the 4th century AD were found in upper stratum 1, which was 50 cm thick. The lower stratum 2, 15 – 20 cm thick, dated to the second phase of the Late Neolithic period (Karanovo ІІІ–ІV). It contained 44 dugout structures with oval, quadrangular and circular layout, which reached up to 6.10 m by 4.60 m in size, 3.75 m in diameter and 1.25 m in depth. The large structures had complex or oval layout and reached 17 m by 6.50 m in size and 1.07 m in depth. The finds included millstones, sherds from dishes, bowls, pots, jugs and cups with cannelures, impressed and incised decoration, anthropomorphic terracotta figurines, flint tools (retoruched flakes, scrapers, punches, etc.), fragments from walls of burned buildings, horns from ox, aurochs and deer, animal bones, two fragments from skulls of children, 3 – 4 years old and 5 – 7 years old, and a fragment of a femur of an adult male. Wheat, millet, barley, vetch and lentils were documented. Twenty-nine Thracian ritual pits of the 5th – 4th centuries BC were explored. The pits had pear-like, bell-like, barrel-like and truncated-conical shapes, up to 3.20 m in diameter and up to 1.80 m in depth. The pits contained small pieces of charcoal, traces of fire, animal bones, sherds from imported Greek amphorae and Thracian kraters, jugs, cups and dolia, a loom weight and a terracotta firedog. A grave of a young woman, dated to the 3rd century AD, was explored. The deceased was rested on her back with head oriented to the south. The grave goods included a small bronze chain, an iron finger-ring on the left hand, a silver bracelet on the right ankle and iron hobnails. A ditch of the second half of the 3rd century AD was discovered, containing skeletons of a horse and a dog, pottery, a bronze finger-ring and a bronze coin.