EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BRESTOVITSA (Kostadin Kisyov – kostadin_kissiov@abv.bg, Desislava Davidova) Tumulus No. 1 belonged to a necropolis of c. 30 tumuli. It was 71 m in diameter and 12.95 m in height. Grave No. 1 was discovered at 12.95 m in depth. The ashes from the cremation and the grave goods were placed in an urn covered with a ceramic vessel. The grave goods comprised a silver finger-ring, a bronze finger-ring showing a man and a small round alabaster plate. Grave No. 2 was discovered at 3.50 m in depth. The ashes from the cremation were shrouded with a cloth and placed inside a dolium covered with a terracotta lid, together with part of the grave goods. The grave goods inside and close to the dolium comprised ceramic, glass and bronze vessels, a candelabrum with bronze lamps, three spearheads, a sword, a gold finger ring with an intaglio and a denarius of Nero. Grave No. 3 was discovered at 1.10 m in depth. It was a funerary pyre with cremated human bones, 2 m in diameter. The grave goods were placed after the cremation and included a bronze podanipter, a patera, a pyxis, a bronze mirror, a glass unguentarium, a gold brooch and a gold earring. The grave dated to the first quarter of the 1st century AD. Grave No. 4 was discovered at 1.40 m in depth. It was a marble urn with two handles and a lid. The ashes from the cremation and part of the grave goods were placed inside the urn. The grave goods inside the urn and close to it comprised a cavalry mask helmet of the Koblenz-Bubenheim/Weiler Type, an umbo, bronze and glass vessels, bronze lamps and a counter-stamped denarius of Marc Antony minted in 38 BC. Two structures were discovered in the southeastern part of the tumulus at its bottom. Structure No. 9 was a platform of roughly-cut-stones, 5 m in diameter and 70 cm in height. Grave No. 1 was discovered over the platform. The dead was laid supine with head to the northeast. A knife was discovered between the jaw and the collar-bone, indicating a possible sacrifice. The grave goods comprised a bronze bracelet, glass and silver beads, a bronze earring, four iron fibulae of the Thracian Type, a bronze arrowhead, a terracotta spindle whorl and two bronze coins of the Odrysian King Teres II and Philip of Macedon. Grave No. 2 was discovered close to the platform. It was an urn with ashes. Structure No. 10 was a pile of stones, 4 – 5 m in diameter and 80 cm in height.