EXPLORATIONS OF A LATE ANTIQUE HOUSEHOLD NEAR THE VILLAGE OF MALKO TRANOVO (Milena Tonkova – milenatonkova@hotmail.com, Zdravko Dimitrov) Building ‘A’ with rectangular layout and a single room was explored. A hearth and dolia were discovered. The building has a single construction period and dates to the 4th century AD. Building ‘B’ with rectangular layout and three rooms was also explored. A small quantity of finds was discovered in room 1. Debris of the fallen walls and the ceiling of the building, dolia, platforms of reused tiles, a significant number of pits dated to the Late Iron Age and the late antique period were discovered in room 2. The building has three construction periods. Ceramic vessels and metal items (more than 20 knives, sharp blades, knuckles, hoops, hooks, etc.) were found. The construction of the remains of both buildings is dry-stone masonry. Obviously, while the plinths of the buildings were stone-built, the walls were constructed of looser material. The fence wall has a Г-shaped layout and is located to the east and to the north of the buildings. It has the same masonry as buildings ‘A’ and ‘B’. A late antique base coming from some earlier construction period was reused within the filling of the fence wall. More than 20 middens of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD were explored on the site. Ceramic vessels, metal finds (including jewellery) and bronze coins of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD were found. A sunken pottery kiln for building terracottas and vessels was explored. It has an oval prefurnium, tunnels leading to the four chambers, and a fire-grate. The household existed from the time of Constantin the Great until the first decades of the 5th century AD.