TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) The explorations continued to he south of the Mediaeval church that was transformed into a bath at the end of the 14th century after Tarnovo was conquered by the Ottomans. A stratum of the 14th – 15th centuries 25 – 40 cm thick was documented. Midden pit No. 15 of the second half of the 14th century was explored, containing pieces of charcoal, animal bones, sherds, fragmentary bricks and roof-tiles, an iron knife, a bone blade and three copper coins. Three places for stirring mortar of the end of the 14th century were discovered. A stratum of the 13th – 14th centuries 15 – 60 cm thick was documented. Another stratum of the 6th – 7th centuries was documented beneath. The finds from the excavations included a gold coin of John III Doukas Vatatzes, five copper coins of the 13th century, part of a mouth of a small bronze vessels showing the figure of a saint, a bronze appliqué, a copper button, two bottoms of sgraffito vessels with graffiti, another bottom of a sgraffito bowl showing an animal, a small glazed bowl from architectural decoration of façade, a bone appliqué and two stone projectiles.