ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BELI PLAST (Katya Melamed – katjamelamed@yahoo.com, Emilia Evtimova) The sanctuary consisted of circles built of large uneven stones, each one containing several ritual hearths situated inside and outside. The votive gifts included bowls and cups. No animal bones and metal objects were discovered. In 2019, a second circle of stones, 6.50 m in diameter, was discovered 3 m to the east of the first one. Ritual hearths and fragmentary bowls and cups were discovered inside the circle and around it. A cremation burial was explored in its southern periphery. The cremated bones belonged to an adult and were rested in a ceramic urn covered with two bowls and a stone slab. Another bowl was discovered to the south of the urn. The sanctuary and the burial dated to the 4th century AD. The sanctuary functioned in the period before the overall Christianization of the Roman Empire. Sherds from a Thracian vessel of the 8th century BC and sherds from a Thracian pot and a fragmentary terracotta andiron, both decorated in the Tsepina Style of the Hellenistic period, were discovered in the southern periphery of the hill.