ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF MIRKOVO (Zhivko Uzunov – jivko_uzunov@abv.bg) The Hellenistic stratum in Sector 1 was partly destroyed by the building activities of the 3rd century AD. A building was documented with walls built of roughly-cut stones bonded with clay, c. 45 cm wide and preserved up to 45 cm in height. Another wall built of roughly-cut stones bonded with clay, 70 cm wide, was discovered. The upper parts of the walls of the building were most probably constructed in wattle-and-daub, judging from the burned fragments that were discovered. The finds included Thracian sherds from pots, bowls, dishes and dolia of the last quarter of the 4th – beginning of the 3rd centuries BC, sherds from imported Greek black-gloss small bowl and kantharos dated c. 325 BC, two bronze coins of Philip of Macedon and Alexander the Great. The Hellenistic settlement dated from the last quarter of the 4th to the second half of the 3rd – beginning of the 2nd century BC.