TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) The excavations continued to the south of the Mediaeval church, transformed into baths during the Ottoman period, and to the east of the western wall of the Early Byzantine fortification. A metallurgical workshop with three furnaces for processing iron ore was explored. It dated to the second half of the 14th century. The finds included sherds, two coins, an iron horseshoe, an iron tool and 30 iron mill-bars. Three Mediaeval pits were excavated, containing fragmentary bricks and roof-tiles, pieces of iron slag, a copper belt buckle, a bronze finger-ring, sherds, including from sgraffito pottery and from a pilgrim flask. A place for stirring mortar was discovered, related to the construction of the Early Byzantine fortification, which secured the water supply for the Early Byzantine fortress on the Tsarevets Hill. The finds from the excavations included 41 coins, three ceramic vessels, three iron knives, three belt buckles, seven lead weights, three glass bracelets, two finger-rings, a bronze fibula, tesserae from mosaics, Thracian sherds and two spindle whorls of the 5th – 4th centuries BC.