KASTRITSI FORTRESS (Valentin Pletnyov, Maria Manolova-Voikova – mara_manolova@yahoo.de, Igor Lazarenko) The northern part of street leading to the south towards the port and situated to the east of Church No. 1 was explored and its access towards the western square was discovered. A coin and a sgraffito bowl of the 14th century were found in the altar of Church No. 1. In Trenches ХХV/23-25 and ХХХV/3-10 two buildings were discovered. Their walls were 70 – 80 cm wide, built of well-cut stones bonded with mud. Both buildings were destroyed in the middle of the 14th century and subsequently they were reconstructed. Their entrances were on their northern sides toward the street. Four buildings were discovered in Trench XXVI. One of them was transformed into a Church No. 2 with a floor paved with stone slabs. Sherds from sgraffito pottery, a coin of the Bulgarian King Ivan Alexander and small terracotta bowls from the façade decoration were found in the church. A cemetery was discovered to the west of the church and 20 graves were explored, belonging to men, women, children and babies. Flints were placed over the dead children in two graves. The church and the cemetery probably functioned at the end of the 14 century. During the excavations, 230 coins were found: 35 coins from Probus to Heraclius (the latest minted in AD 614) and 195 Mediaeval coins of Constantine X Doukas, Theodore I Laskaris, Andronikos II Palaiologos, Andronikos III Palaiologos, Manuel II Palaiologos, Bulgarian imitative coins of the first half of the 13th century, coins of the Bulgarian Kings Konstantin Asen, Theodore Svetoslav, Mihail Shishman with Ivan Stefan and Ivan Alexander, coins of the Bulgarian Despots Dobrotitsa (minted in Kaliakra) and Terter (minted in Drastar), silver grossi and ducats of Mircea I of Wallachia and Vlad I the Usurper, Ottoman copper mangir and silver akçe of Sultans Murad I and Bayezid I and Emir Suleiman.