ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN DUROSTORUM – DRASTAR – SILISTRA (Stefka Angelova, Rumyana Koleva – rukoleva@mail.orbitel.bg, Boyan Dumanov, Vladimir Penchev) Rooms Nos. 5 – 7 in the building situated to the west of the basilica were explored. Room No. 5 is located in front of the western entrance of the church. Most likely some passageways leading to the basilica existed in its ground storey. The walls of the rooms were constructed of quadrilateral blocks bonded with white mortar. The core of the walls consists of sherds, broken stones and blocks. The pointing of the joints between the blocks is partly preserved. Part of the flooring in rooms Nos. 6 and 7 is preserved: horizontal stone slabs joined with mortar were arranged on a bed of white mortar. The building and the basilica were part of a complex built at the end of the 9th century AD. The area was inhabited for a long time after. This is evident from the stratigraphic situation in room No. 7 and to the east of it: occupation levels of the 11th century, burnt down floor levels of the 13th century, succeeded by hiatus that overlies the wall of room No. 7. Two kilns dated to the end of the 13th century were found within the hiatus. Occupation levels of the 14th century, burned at the end of the century, lie above the hiatus. At least three occupation levels from the 15th – 17th centuries were observed above the burned levels. A pottery kiln dated to the second half of the 13th century was excavated to the west of Room No. 7. Three more graves from the 13th – 14th centuries were discovered in the cemetery of the basilica.