CHERVEN (Stoyan Iordanov – stojan_jo@abv.bg) The excavations continued to the east of the area explored in 2009. A building constructed in rubble masonry, 4.60 m long and preserved up to 70 cm in height, was discovered in trenches 19 – 24. The finds included sherds of the 13th – 14th centuries, including sgraffito pottery, fragmentary small bowls from the façade decoration of a church, coins of the second half of the 14th century, nails, iron mill-bars and animal bones. A wall supporting a terrace was discovered in trench 23. A building constructed of ashlars with different size bonded with mortar was discovered in trench 20A. It was 4.20 m long, preserved up to 70 cm in height, with walls 55 – 70 cm wide and an entrance 90 cm wide on its western wall. The finds included sherds of the 13th – 14th centuries, animal bones, nails, and an ashlar with incised outline of a building and Cyrillic letters. A burial of a man was discovered in the necropolis in trench 20. The finds from the excavations included coins of the Bulgarian King Ivan Shishman (1371 – 1395) and the Despot of Epirus John II Orsini (1323 – 1335), imitative coins of the second half of the 14th century, a bone handle with incised decoration, an arrowhead, a spherical copper button, a bronze belt buckle, a copper earring, a handle of a door, a copper plate from weighing balances, sherds mostly of the second half of the 14th century, including sgraffito pottery.