ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN AUGUSTA TRAIANA – VEREYA (Maria Kamisheva – maria.ivanowa@gmail.com) The site was situated in the northern part of Augusta Traiana. A wall of the 2nd – 3rd century AD was discovered. It was 65 cm wide, built of stones bonded with mud. During the 3rd – 4th century AD a building, consisting of at least three parallel rooms arranged in a line, was constructed. Its walls were 97 cm wide, built of uneven stones bonded with mortar. The eastern room was 8.20 m by 6.85 m in size. Part of the building, 17.40 m (east – west) by 8.90 m (north – south) was discovered during the excavations. A drain, 4.50 m long and 32 – 38 cm wide, was explored to the east of the building. A stone sink for a fountain, 0.58 m by 1.17 m in size and 22 cm in depth, with two openings for draining the water, was discovered close to the drain. There was a platform for the fountain close to the sink. A water-conduit brought the water to the fountain. A platform of stone slabs was discovered around the fountain and the sink. The building had architectural decoration. Columns, bases, architectural details and tesserae were found. After a major demolition, which occurred most likely at the end of the 6th century AD, the building was reconstructed and walls of uneven stones, fragments of building ceramics and architectural marble details, bonded with mud, were constructed over the preserved parts of the old walls. The entrances of the previous building were closed and the level of the floor was raised. Probably during the 7th century AD the building changed its purposes and was used not only as a house, but had farming and storage functions as well. A large number of dolia were found. Pottery from the 9th – 10th and the 12th – 14th centuries was found on the site. During the 18th – 19th century a building, 5.60 m by 7.60 m in size, was constructed on the site. Its walls were 60 cm wide, built of roughly cut stones and bricks bonded with mud.