EXPLORATIONS NEAR KABYLE (Ivailo Lozanov – ivaylo_lozanov@yahoo.com, Kristiyan Hristov) A tumulus, 30 – 35 m in diameter and 3.20 m in height, was explored. Part of a ditch, 7 m wide and 1.20 m deep, which surrounded the tumulus, was documented. It had a triangle layout in front of the southern half of the tumulus. Earth for the construction of the tumulus was taken out from the ditch. Four secondary inhumation burials, oriented west – east, were discovered on the top of the tumulus. The deceased in grave No. 2 had a bronze bracelet on each arm. Both bracelets dated in the second half of the 4th – beginning of the 5th century AD. Two primary cremation burials were explored in the southeastern quarter of the tumulus. Judging from the grave goods, grave I-5 belonged to a woman and grave II-6 belonged to a man. The first grave was a bustum and the second one was an ustrinum. The pottery included bowls, jugs/pitchers and lamps. Glass bowls, which covered the cremated remains, were discovered. An iron chair and a bronze jug were found in grave II-6. A bronze coin of Marcus Aurelius minted in AD 145 was found in grave I-5 and a bronze coin of Lucius Verus minted in Philippopolis in AD 161 – 169 was found in grave II-6. Pine cones and seeds, walnut shells and burned dogwood and ash were documented in the graves. Judging from the coins, the graves dated in the period AD 145 – 175. A pile of stones a bricks, probably the debris of a funerary construction, was discovered close to the graves. Fragmentary bricks and roof-tiles and sherds, including from terra sigillata and red-gloss pottery, were found. Sherds from Hellenistic amphorae and a bronze coin, probably minted by the Thracian King Spartokos who ruled in Kabyle during the late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC, were found around the pile of stones and bricks. These materials were accidentally placed there during the construction of the tumular embankment. Sunken-floored buildings (one from the Early Bronze Age, two from the Early Iron Age and one unspecified) were discovered in the ground under the tumulus. Fragmentary wattle-and-daub and sherds were found.