ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR BUHOVO (Snezhana Goryanova – sgoryanova@gmail.com, Vladislav Todorov) During the construction of the single-naved and single-apse church in the Monastery of St. Mary Magdalene, walls from basilica were discovered and human bones were found. Excavations were carried out during the early 1930s and an Early Christian basilica was discovered. It was single-apse, with three naves, a narthex and an exonarthex, two towers on its western façade and a side room adjoining its southwestern corner where Christian burials were discovered. The basilica dated to the 4th – 6th centuries AD. In 2013, the eastern part of the naves and the apse of the basilica were discovered; the side room adjoining its southwestern corner, the northern part of the narthex, the southwestern corner of the exonarthex and the adjoining southwestern tower were also explored. The walls were constructed of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar and were 65 – 70 cm and 85 – 90 cm wide. The positions of the bases of the columns were not visible on the stylobates. The foundation of the floor was discovered, constructed of mortar poured on gravel. The level of the floor in the exonarthex was 1 m lower than the floor of the nave. A Christian burial containing a bronze coin of Constantius Gallus was discovered in the side room adjoining the southwestern corner of the nave. Twenty coins were found in the basilica, minted from Claudius Gothicus until Phocas. Three Christian burials without grave goods were explored outside basilica. Small crosses, jewelry, pierced sliver and billon Ottoman coins of the 18th – 19th centuries and modern Bulgarian coins minted until 1912 were also found.