TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) Twenty-four graves of the 16th – 17th centuries were explored, two of them secondary burials and one child burial. Almost all graves contained nails and timber boards from coffins. The grave goods included a silver finger-ring, a small copper finger-ring, 29 copper buttons, a spindle whorl, a small pot, an arrowhead, five copper and one silver coins. An oven of the 16th century was explored. A wall in rubble masonry of the 14th – 15th centuries was documented, probably part of a southern fence surrounding the church. Sunken-floored House No. 1 of the 14th century, 2.80 m long, was explored. Sunken-floored House No. 2 of the 14th century, 2.70 m by 3.50 m in size, was explored. Grave No. 65 of the 14th century was discovered at 12 m to the south of the church. The western fortification wall of the Early Byzantine fortress was explored to the south of the church. Its foundation was down to 75 cm deep and the wall was preserved up to 2.40 m in height. A lead seal of the 6th century AD was found inside the mortar of one of the fortification towers. Two places for stirring mortar were discovered. Pottery of the 13th – 14th centuries and the 16th – 19th centuries was found in the upper layers. The finds from the excavations included small glazed bowls, a small bronze spoon, an iron reaping hook and terracotta tobacco pipes of the Ottoman period, and a bronze cross, a bronze procession cross, sgraffito pottery showing images of birds and warriors of the 13th – 14th centuries. C. 1500 fragments from the frescoes of the church were classified and conserved. The image of St. Mary seating on a throne and several images of monks and military saints were reconstructed.