TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) The site was situated at 60 m to the south of St. Forty Martyrs Church. A place for sitting mortar was discovered, used for the building of the Early Byzantine fortification of the 6th century AD. A sector of the western fortification wall was discovered, 2.60 m wide and preserved up to 2.60 m in height. The foundation of the wall was 1.10 m deep, constructed of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar. A ditch of the 13th century was explored, containing charcoal, Thracian, Early Byzantine and Mediaeval sherds. Four graves of adults dated to the 14th century were explored. Fourteen midden pits the 14th century were discovered, containing sherds, charcoal, animal bones and copper coins. A kiln of the end of the 14th century was explored. Two graves in the Christian cemetery of the 16th–17th centuries were discovered. The finds from the excavations included coins, small crosses, a finger-ring, a bracelet, a spade, pots, spindle whorls and bone objects.