EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF VIDRARE (Tatyana Borisova – tatqna_borisova@abv.bg) The tumulus is 2.10 m in height and 22.50 – 26 m in diameter. Its northern half was destroyed by clandestine digs. A circular burial construction of uneven stones, 4.40 m in diameter, was discovered in the southwestern quarter of the tumulus. The outer stones of the circle are bigger than the inner stones. An inhumation burial was discovered in the center of the funerary construction. The skeleton is oriented north – south, with its head to the south, and is 1.58 m long. The grave goods include an iron knife placed at the pelvis and Thracian pottery placed around the skull (an amphora with incised geometric decoration, a dolium with cannelures and Buckels, a dish, a kantharos decorated with incised lines, two cups) and at the feet (a cup decorated with a cannelure and a button, placed in a dish). A funerary pyre was discovered under the stones in the western part of the burial construction and at the ancient ground level. It contained sherds, a terracotta spindle whorl and cremated human bones. A kantharos with incised decoration and two buttons was found outside the burial construction. A ceramic vessel decorated with a band in relief, placed upside down, was discovered close to the north of the burial construction. A pile of numerous fragmentary cups and dishes with incised, pricked and stamped decoration was explored to the southwest of the burial construction. Four bronze spirals, an iron torque, single cremated bones and several human teeth from a junior individual were found among the sherds of the pile. Sherds and two bronze spirals were found to the west of the burial construction. The burial complex dates to the first phase of the Early Iron Age (11th – 9th centuries BC).