ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR BYALA (Valeri Yotov – valeri.yotov@gmail.com, Alexander Minchev) The explorations continued to the east of the street dated to the second half of the 6th – beginning of the 7th centuries AD and situated to the south of the basilica. Building No. 9 in the top stratum of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 7th centuries AD was entirely excavated. The building had three rooms and its walls were 70 – 80 cm wide. During the last years of the existence of the town, in the first decades of the 7th century AD, the building was used for storage. Building No. 9 was constructed over earlier buildings of the end of the 5th – first half of the 6th centuries AD, which were destroyed. A pottery kiln 2 m in diameter was explored. It contained a sherd of a bowl that was not fired and 38 terracotta weights for fishing nets. A smaller pottery kiln was also discovered. Both kilns dated to the end of the 5th – beginning of the 6th centuries AD. The extension of the early wall, which surrounded the temenos during the Thracian and the Roman periods, was discovered.