ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SUVOROVO (Vladimir Slavchev – vladosl@yahoo.com) The settlement was discovered in 1983 and excavations were carried out, later resumed in 1989 – 1990. At least eight buildings and two midden pits were documented. An area of 100 sq. m was explored in 2011. Part of a sunken-floored Mediaeval house of the 11th century was explored in Trench B3. Two pots and an iron arrowhead were found. Three ovens were documented close to the house. Debris from a burned Chalcolithic house was discovered in Trench A3. A floor of a Chalcolithic house was explored in Trench A4 and an oven was documented. An anteroom of another Chalcolithic house was explored with an entrance on its northern wall built of stones. A burial of a woman, 50 – 70 years old, oriented southwest – northeast, was explored in front of the entrance of the house. Debris of a burned Middle Chalcolithic house was excavated in Trench B4. Piles of sherds and fragments of burned wattle-and-daub, some of them 20 – 30 cm long, 10 – 15 cm wide and up to 10 cm thick, were found. The debris and the finds originated from the second floor of the house. A clay plaster of a wall, 1.20 m long and 45 cm wide, decorated with cannelures, was discovered. The house had a plinth built of stones, 50 cm wide, and a wall of sun-dried bricks was constructed on it. A platform of split trunks plastered with trampled clay, 15 – 18 cm thick, was constructed over the wall and it served as a floor for the second storey. Judging from the pottery, the house dated to Phase IV of Sava and Hamandjia Cultures.