APOLLONIA (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Margarit Damyanov) About 50 burials of the 20th century were excavated over an area of c. 450 sq. m. A pile of sherds was explored under them, 2 m by 7 m in size and up to 30 cm thick, containing mainly fragmentary amphorae from Thasos, Chios, Knidos, Rhodes etc. dated to the second half of the 4th and the beginning of the 3rd centuries BC, including sherds from local and black-gloss pottery. Four inhumation burials (Nos. 11 – 14) were explored. A child was buried in Grave No. 13. The grave goods included a black-figure lekythos, a small bowl, two terracotta figurines, two pyxides, two bronze arrowheads, knucklebones and 46 teeth from sheep and/or goats. The burial dated to 480 – 470 BC. Another child was buried in Grave No. 14 dated to the same period. Pits were documented, containing a small number of asynchronous Thracian sherds of the Early Iron Age and sherds from Hellenistic amphorae. Objects probably originating from destroyed burials in the necropolis and Thracian sherds of the Early Iron Age were found in the excavated area. The graves of the Classical and Hellenistic periods were dug out into a stratum of the Early Iron Age. Another stratum was documented beneath, c. 20 cm thick and containing Late Neolithic sherds. Three platforms of roughly-cut stones and several burned patches of plaster, probably from houses, were discovered and Late Neolithic sherds, animal bones and flint flakes were found there.