EXPLORATIONS IN KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Hristo Kuzov – h.kouzov@abv.bg, Asya Stefanova) A buttressed wall covering a Late Antique building consisting of adjoining rooms arranged in a row was discovered close to the northwestern tower. A flooring level with charcoal, carbonized beams, sherds and coins of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries was discovered inside the tower. An earlier flooring level with charcoal, pottery, copper buttons and coins of the 14th century was explored below. A third lowest flooring level with Late Antique pottery was discovered. A room with fragmentary wall-paintings showing vegetative and linear ornaments, including a fragment most probably displaying a tower, was discovered close to the tower. A small Byzantine sgraffito cup placed in a jar and a coin of the second half of the 14th century were found. Presumably, the room was a chapel that adjoined the tower. A room with a furnace was discovered to the south of the tower. Bronze and lead melts, part of a bronze matrix for producing icons showing Christ Pantokrator, mediaeval pottery, two iron knives, a carpenter’s tool and a small bronze padlock were found in it. Charcoal, Late Antique pottery, coins of the 5th – beginning of the 6th centuries AD and the foundations of a building consisting of adjoining rooms arranged in a row were discovered below the floor level. Buildings consisting of a row of adjoining rooms and coins of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries were explored to the southeast of the tower. A single-nave and single-apse church, 14 m by 5.60 m in size, was explored. A fragmentary altar table, clasps for books, a copper dish and coins of the 14th – beginning of the 15th centuries were found. During the excavations 113 coins were found: coins of Odessos of the 3rd – 2nd centuries BC, coins minted by Licinius, Constantine I, Tiberius II Constantine, Anastasius I, Justin I, Justinian I, Maurice Tiberius, Phocas, Heraclius, John III Doukas Vatatzes, Andronikos II Palaiologos, John II Orsini, the Bulgarian Kings Theodor Svetoslav, Michael Shishman and Ivan Alexander, the Ottoman Sultans Murad I and Bayazid I, Emir Syuleiman, Beylik of Saruhan, etc.