ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR GURKOVO (Maria Kamisheva – maria.ivanowa@gmail.com) The explorations of the baths in the villa rustica continued. It dated to the 4th – 5th centuries AD. Four rooms were discovered. The northern room was apodyterium and its walls were built of boulders bonded with mortar. The floor was paved with bricks arranged over a mortar bed. The inner side of its northern wall was plastered with mortar and had rectangular niches, one of them 0.51 m by 1.96 m in size. The room close to the pool was a frigidarium and measured 1.60 m by 4.33 m. The western room with the hypocaust was a tepidarium and measured 3.05 m by 4.34 m. Its floor was plastered with a mortar layer, 9 cm thick, and a hypocaust was constructed beneath with terracotta tubular pilae placed over bricks. The walls of the tepidarium were decorated with frescoes. The room next to the tepidarium was probably a caldarium.