DEULTUM (Hristo Preshlenov – hristo.preshlenov@abv.bg, Milena Raicheva) The excavations of the houses and the fortification wall built in the mid 5th century AD continued. The houses had stone plinths and walls built of sun-dried bricks; they were burned down at the end of the 5th – beginning of the 6th century AD. In the 8th century AD, rooms were dug into their debris. Debris from a fire that occurred after AD 408/423 was documented. The finds included iron tools and clamps, bronze coins, a small cross, a fibula, a belt buckle, a small axe-amulet, a fragment from a chlamys of a Roman bronze statue, and were spread over a hypocaust abandoned at the end of the 4th century AD. Capitals of pilasters, marble veneer and floor slabs, frames from windows and bricks were fallen over the floor of the hypocaust. A room, 7.50 m by 3.40 m in size, was explored in 1990–1992, 2004 and 2008. In 2019, four floor levels were identified with traces from fires that occurred at the end of the 5th – beginning of the 6th century AD, after AD 457/474, after AD 408/423 and after AD 367/374. Occupation during the 8th century AD was documented and a corner of a room was discovered. The finds included sherds from amphorae of the Saraçhane Type, glazed vessels and pots.