ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SINEMORETS (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg, Deyan Dichev) The explorations of the southwestern and the western parts of the fortification wall and the area in Sector West continued. The western fortification wall was 1.40 m wide, built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mud and preserved up to 70 cm in height. A layer with fragmentary wattle-and-daub, ash and charcoal was discovered in Trenches I5/6 and Y5/6, and the floor of the building where a clay eschara was explored in 2015, was reached. Ten small terracotta cult objects were found in trench I7 and a domestic oven was discovered. Fragments from a decorated clay eschara were found in Trench Y8. A layer with fragmentary wattle-and-daub was discovered in Trenches I9 and Y9 and a clay eschara, 70 cm by 70 cm in size, was explored. A pile of sherds from 10 – 15 vessels was discovered in Trench Y9. The finds from the sector included sherds from Megarian bowls, krateroi, dolia and amphorae from Kos, roof-tiles of the Laconian and Corinthian Types. In Sector East, the apse of the church was documented and 13 Christian graves of the 19th century were explored. The grave goods included terracotta plates with crosses and inscriptions that read: IC XC NIKA, silver and bronze coins, ceramic vessels and horseshoes. A building with approximate size 4.20 m by 4.60 m, built in rubble masonry, was explored in Trench V14. A patch with fragmentary wattle-and-daub, traces from fire and sherds from amphorae was discovered. The finds from the Thracian tyrsis dated to the second half of the 2nd – beginning of the 1st centuries BC. The significant quantity of luxurious pottery discovered in the site, mostly imported from Anatolian production centers, indicated the significant economic power of the Thracian aristocrats.