URVICH FORTRESS (Violina Kiryakova – v.kirqkova@abv.bg, Philip Petrunov) Mixed finds of the 4th – 6th centuries AD and the 13th – 14th centuries were discovered to the north of the Mediaeval tower, including a silver coin of the Bulgarian King Ivan Alexander with his son Michael Asen minted after 1367 and a Venetian silver grosso of Lorenzo Tiepolo. A pile of stones was documented, containing sherds of the 14th – 17th centuries, iron nails, iron ox shoes and animal bones. A building 6.15 m by 4.75 m in size with walls 60 cm wide was excavated. Its floor was paved with stone slabs and a hearth was discovered. The finds included needles, slag, animal bones and sherds of the 15th – 17th centuries. The tower dated to the 14th century and was preserved up to 6.60 m in height. Some of the wooden beams incorporated in the structure were still well preserved on the front sides of the tower. A sector of the fortification wall, 3.30 m long and 1.20 m wide, was explored to the north of the tower. Debris from a roof of the 4th – 6th centuries AD was discovered beneath. Animal bones, sherds and coins from the end of the 4th the second half of the 6th centuries AD were found. The coins discovered during the excavations included folles of Arcadius, Theodosius II, Marcian, Leo I the Thracian, Anastasius I Dicorus, Justin I, Justinian the Great and Justin II, including a coin of 16 nummi of Justin II and Sophia, Latin imitative coins of the mid 13th century, a Venetian copper tornese and an Ottoman copper mangir of Suleiman II.