ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF ZELENDOL (Tsvetana Komitova – komitova@abv.bg) The fortress covered an area of 0.3 ha. A tower with a semicircular layout was built on the eastern fortification wall and there was another one on the western wall. A tower with a rectangular layout and a staircase was built on the northern fortification wall; it probably served as a residence of the governor of the fortress as well. Room 1 was discovered, 5.75 m by 6.25 m in size, adjoining the northwestern corner of the fortification wall. The walls of the room were built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar. A fragment from a Latin inscription on the base of a marble statue was discovered in the northern fortification tower. The fortress was built in the 4th century AD. Sherds from the Chalcolithic period and the Late Bronze Age (end of the 13th – 12th centuries BC) were found beneath the stratum of the Late Antique fortress.