DEULTUM (Krasimira Kostova – kr.kostova@mail.bg) The explorations of the villa suburbana situated to the east of Deultum continued. In Sondage D, a stratum with traces from fire of the second half of the 4th century AD and a pile of roof-tiles and debris from building constructed of bricks were explored. In Sondage Z, debris from a burned building was discovered and two hoards with coins of Constantius II of AD 353 – 358 were found. The fire dated to AD 358 and was related to the earthquake documented in the thermae and in other buildings. The atrium of the Roman villa was discovered with the impluvium and part of the vestibule. Stone bases were discovered in the four corners of the impluvium, probably for wooden columns that supported to compluvium. Parts of three rooms were discovered, one of them with traces from the fire of AD 358. Stone pavement of the second construction period of the villa was explored. A leveling layer was discovered under the pavement, which had destroyed a stratum of the first construction period containing finds of the 2nd – first half of the 3rd centuries AD with latest coin of Gordian III. Four rooms of the building were discovered to the south of the pavement. The foundations of the building of the first construction period were built of stones bonded with mortar. During the second construction period of the second half of the 3rd – 4th centuries AD, repairs were done and some rooms were divided with walls built in rubble masonry. A leveling layer with finds of the 2nd – first half of the 3rd centuries AD, with earliest coins of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder and latest coin of Gordian III, was explored under the floor of the second half of the 3rd – 4th centuries AD in the southeastern room. In the other sondages, a room with suspensura and a floor paved bricks was discovered and four bronze coins of the end of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD and a sherd of Visigothic pottery were found in the debris. A second room with floor paved with bricks was discovered to the south.