EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF ZELENDOL (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Tsvetana Komitova) The southern fortification wall, 31.20 m long and 1 m wide, had an entrance in the middle, which was 2.20 m wide and was closed with a two-wing gate. A semicircular fortification tower was situated to the west of the entrance. Two rooms, probably towers, were discovered in the northwestern and the southwestern corner of the fortress, measuring 7.85 m by 5.05 m and 6.90 m by 7.55 m respectively and adjoining the inner side of the fortification walls. The western fortification wall was 95 m long. A semicircular fortification tower, 4.10 m long and 3.20 m wide, with an entrance 1.50 m wide, was situated at 41 m from the northwestern corner. A semicircular fortification tower, 5.20 m long and 3.60 m wide, with an entrance 1.65 m wide, was documented on the eastern fortification wall. A rectangular fortification tower, 8.30 m long and 5.15 m wide, was discovered on the northern fortification wall. The total length of the fortification wall was 240 m. The fortress covered an area of 0.3 ha. It functioned during the 4th – 6th centuries AD. During the 10th – 13th centuries the fortress was reconstructed and reoccupied. A second fortification wall existed at the foot of the hill and a water-supplying tower was documented close to the river. The finds from the excavations included a provincial bronze coin of Septimius Severus, AE 3 of Constantius II minted in AD 348, АЕ 3 and AE 4 of Valentinian I, AE 4 of Theodosius I, two AE 4 of Arcadius, a metal plate with inscription that reads FVDOX, a fragment of marble votive relief with Greek inscription containing the names Πυρρος and Αυλουτραλις, two belt buckles of the Sucidava Type of the 6th century AD, an iron two-part military fibula of the end of the 4th – 5th century AD, an iron two-part military fibula of the 5th century AD, a bronze two-part military fibula of the 5th century AD, a bronze two-part fibula of the 6th – beginning of the 7th century AD, a lead commercial weight of 1670 g (5 librae), a pair of iron scissors of the 4th – 5th century AD, a coin of Constantine X Doukas, a billon scyphate of Isaac II Angelos, a billon scyphate and a billon trachea of Alexios III Angelos, a Latin imitation of a billon trachea of John II Komnenos.