AD PUTEA (Petar Banov – plevenmuseum@dir.bg) The explored castellum is later than Mansio Ad Putea on Via Traiana. The watchtower was explored. It was a three-storeyed burgus built in opus mixtum. There was a buttress at its southeastern corner. A grain storage was additionally built to the south of the burgus and a dolium with carbonized einkorn was discovered inside. After a fire in the middle of the 3rd century AD, the grain storage was rebuilt. During AD 375 – 400, the grain storage was burned again. There were four buildings constructed to the west of the burgus with foundations of stones and walls of sun-dried bricks. Sherds from pitchers, jugs and amphorae of the second half of the 3rd – 4th centuries AD were found. The explorations of the building with the hypocaust continued. Pillae built of bricks were discovered in the hypocaust of the northeastern room. The building dated to AD 270 – 376 and its end was attested by a hoard of 65 coins of Valentinian I, Valens and Gratian. In Sector 6, four altars, a bronze leg from a statue and architectural fragments, probably originating from a temple, had been discovered before the archaeological explorations were launched. A wall 70 cm wide, built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar, was discovered. A second later wall that adjoined the first one was explored. The corner between the walls was shaped with a reused pedestal of altar or a small statue. A hearth was discovered and coins of Valentinian I and Theodosius I were found. Traces from two fires were documented. A bronze cross-encolpion of the 11th century was found above the later layer with traces from fire.