NOVAE (Pavlina Vladkova – pavlina_v@yahoo.com) The explorations continued in the Southwestern Sector. A timber structure of the end of the 1st – beginning of the 2nd centuries AD was documented. Rooms V, VI, VII and VIII with hypocaust and wall heating dated to the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD. The pilae of the hypocaust were terracotta tubes or were built of bricks. Hollow bricks with openings or tegulae mammatae were used in the wall heating. The furnaces of the hypocaust were situated in an inner yard. Part of the building ceramics had stamps of Legio I Italica: LEGIITAL inside tabula ansata or an emblem of a ship. After the rooms were destroyed, new ones were constructed over the ruins that changed the layout of the building. Rooms Zh and Z paved with bricks placed over an earlier mortar floor were explored. The bricks had stamps of Legio I Italica. A corridor was also discovered. The rooms and the corridor dated to the late 3rd – 4th centuries AD. A wall built in rubble masonry was discovered, probably related to the basilica of the 6th century AD. A fragment from a votive inscription devoted to Apollo, Diana and Minerva was reused in the wall. In the Central Sector the explorations of the portico of the building continued. It has two construction periods: 2nd – 3rd centuries AD and 4th century AD. The finds from the excavations included coins, sherds and fragments from glass vessels.