ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SINEMORETS (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg) Three sondages were carried out. Sherds from the Late Ottoman period were found in sondage No. 1. A wall of a building, constructed of uneven stones and ashlars, was discovered in sondage No. 2. The wall is 1.10 m wide and is preserved up to four courses at 66 cm in height. Sherds from the Ottoman period, an Ottoman bronze coin, a belt buckle of the 19th century and Ottoman roofing tiles were found in a stratum c. 15 cm thick. A stratum, containing a large number of tegulae, fragmentary amphorae and pottery of the 4th – 3rd centuries BC, was discovered. A wall, constructed of uneven stones and 1.10 m wide, was documented in sondage No. 3. Two sunken dolia were discovered close to the wall. Tegulae and Hellenistic pottery were found. The building was constructed in the second half of the 3rd century BC.