EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BELEVREN (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg) The dolmen is situated in a tumulus, which is 15 m in diameter. It consists of two chambers, a dromos and a façade. The burial chamber is 2.37 m in length, 1.60 – 1.80 m in width and 1.66 – 1.78 m in height. The walls were constructed of stone slabs. There is an entrance cut in the southern slab. The roof consists of a horizontal slab. The front chamber is 1.25 m in length, 1.55 – 1.65 m in width and 1.45 m in height. The walls were constructed of slabs. There is an entrance cut in the southern wall. The dromos was built of stones with a bonding medium of mud. It is 2 m in width and 1.40 m in length. The façade is 8.70 m in length. It was built of uneven stones bonded with mud and slabs. The dolmen was looted. Sherds of c. 25 Early Iron Age (11th – 6th centuries BC) vessels, decorated with cannelures, pseudo-Buckels and incised triangles, were found in front of the façade. Sherds of two or three Late Iron Age (5th – 1st centuries BC) wheel-made vessels of the ‘Thracian grey pottery’ were found in front of the façade. Four bronze fibulae were found inside the dromos and in front of it. The dolmen was built in the beginning of the 8th century BC and was used until the 7th century BC. A tumulus, 9 m in diameter and 1.10 m in height, was explored. No grave construction was found. A platform measuring 2 m by 2 m and built of uneven stones was discovered on the level of the ancient terrain. Two anthropomorphic terracotta figurines and two ceramic vessels, decorated with stamped rhombs, circles with tangents and triangles, were found. The tumulus was constructed in the end of the 10th – 9th century BC. Two silver pectorals and a bronze fibula were buried in the tumulus’ center at the end of the 7th – 6th century BC.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF BELEVREN (Daniela Agre – daniela.agre@abv.bg) The dolmen is situated in a tumulus constructed of uneven stones, 13.20 m in diameter and 1.20 m in height. Two cist graves, oriented east – west, are discovered in the western half of the tumulus. The dolmen is tri-partite, constructed of granite slabs and oriented north – south. The dromos, the antechamber and the burial chamber were covered with horizontal slabs. The dromos has a trapezoidal cross-section and is 1.27 m long, 1.10 m wide and 1.30 m high. The finds include two bronze fibulae, a glass bead and two fragmentary ceramic cups. The antechamber has a trapezoidal cross-section and is 1.60 m long, 1.60 m wide and 1.85 m high. The entrance to the antechamber is cut in its southern wall and is trapezoidal. Its height is 53 cm, its width at the bottom is 33 cm and its width at the top is 28 cm. Six ceramic vessels, two glass beads, three fibulae and a human skull were found. The burial chamber has a trapezoidal cross-section and is 2 m long, 1.40 m wide and 1.90 m high. The entrance to the burial chamber is cut in its southern wall and is trapezoidal. Its height is 55 cm, its width at the bottom is 36 cm and its width at the top is 26 cm. Six ceramic vessels, six fibulae, a spindle whorl, two glass beads and human bones were found. The façade of the dolmen is 4.50 m long from the west and 3.50 m long from the east. It s built of uneven stone slabs bonded with mud. Sherds of c. 15 vessels, two bronze fibulae, a glass and two ceramic beads were found in front of the façade. Some of the fibulae from the dolmen find parallels among the fibulae of Phrygia, the Anatolian coast and the Aegean islands during the 8th – 7th centuries BC. The dolmen was built in the middle of the 8th century BC. It was used until the middle of the 7th century BC.