ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF GRAMADA (Georgi Ganetsovski – ganecovski_ar@abv.bg) Debris of burned structures were registered in the half-empty dam, containing sherds of the Early Chalcolithic period. In Sector A, three areas with pits were discovered, containing flint artifacts (over 180 scrapers, flakes, cutters and awls). In addition, burned fragmentary wattle-and-daub, stone tools and sherds of the Early Chalcolithic period were discovered. Pits containing Early Iron Age Thracian sherds were also documented. In sector C, 12 structures and seven pits of the Late Bronze Age, the 8th – 7th centuries BC, the 2nd – 1st centuries BC and the 3rd – 4th centuries AD were discovered. A destroyed stratum of the 10th – 11th centuries AD was documented, containing sherds and a coin. Structures 1 and 2 were probably midden pits, containing disturbed sherds of the Late Bronze Age, the 8th – 7th centuries BC and the 2nd – 1st centuries BC. Two ramshackle buildings were documented, accommodating five metallurgical furnaces; numerous pieces of iron melts, two terracotta blower nozzles and Thracian sherds of the 2nd – 1st centuries BC were found. The Thracian sherds of the 8th – 7th centuries BC were discovered mainly in the pits and belonged to the Basarabi Culture. The finds from Sector C included an anthropomorphic terracotta figurine of the Late Bronze Age, a bronze coin-like object of the Celtic Type, bronze fibulae and hairpins of the 2nd – 1st centuries BC.