TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) The site was situated to the south of St. Forty Martyrs Church. Part of a Mediaeval midden pit was explored, containing sherds, including sgraffito, animal bones, fragments from roof tiles and bricks. A wall of the 14th – 15th century was discovered, built in rubble masonry and 75 cm wide. Two Christian graves were situated over the wall. They belonged to the Post-Capital Christian necropolis of the 16th – 17th centuries, which was situated around the baths, already not functional in that period. Twenty-five graves were explored and the total number of the graves discovered in the necropolis reached 48. Seven burials belonged to children. Almost all graves contained iron nails and remains from coffins. The grave goods included three silver and seven copper spherical buttons, 10 buttons produced of wire, two copper bracelets, a silver appliqué, a small glazed bowl and a small ceramic cup, a fragment of a roof tile with a graffito: a cross and the abbreviation IC XC NI KA. In addition to the grave goods, the finds discovered during the excavations included silver and copper coins, a gilded copper jewel, a small copper chain, glass beads, pottery, terracotta tobacco-pipes, fragments from frescoes from the decoration of the church, sherds from sgraffito pottery, including a fragmentary dish showing the images of two warriors.