ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KNYAZHEVO (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg) The Central Building measured 10.40 m by 10.40 m and had five rooms. Tegulae and Corinthian imbrices were found. Room Nos. 4 and 5 and the storage pit in Room No. 2, dug out into the bedrock and 1.40 m deep, were explored. The rooms measured 4.70 m by 4.70 m and their entrances were 1 m wide. An oven was discovered in Room No. 4. The interior walls of the rooms were 60 cm wide and the outer walls were 1.40 m wide. The upper parts of the walls were built of sun-dried bricks, preserved up to 12 courses. The walls were burned during a fire. Debris from the collapsed second floor were discovered in the rooms and sherds from amphorae, lekythoi, ichthyai, small cups, dolia and animal bones were found. Room A in Building II measured 4.90 m by 5 m. Fragmentary roof-tiles were found under the debris of wall plaster. The entrance of the room was 1.20 m wide. An eschara was explored in Room B. Debris from sun-dried bricks, charcoal and slag were found. Building III consisted of three rooms arranged in a line: A, B and C. Each room had its own entrance. Room C was divided in two parts. The walls of the building were 50 cm wide and preserved up to 40 cm in height, built of roughly-cut stones bonded with clay in the lower part and sun-dried bricks in the upper part. Three walls were discovered in Trenches T6/7 and U6/7 in the eastern part of the site.