ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF ZLATAR (Stela Doncheva – donchevastela@yahoo.com) A hearth was discovered in Workshop No. 4 in Complex IV. Rows of postholes were documented. Pits were discovered, containing a bronze appliqué, melts, sherds from pottery and melting pots, charcoal and fragmentary wattle-and-daub. Traces from intensive production activities were documented in Workshop No. 1 in Complex V: bronze melts, sherds, charcoal and fragmentary wattle-and-daub. The bottom of metallurgical Kiln No. 1 was explored. Two terracotta melting pots, bronze appliqués, two lead production models, an exagium and sherds from melting pots and pottery were found. A midden pit for scrap production was discovered, situated in front of the kiln and containing three terracotta melting pots, bronze appliqués and two lead production models. The bottom of metallurgical Kiln No. 2 was explored. Charcoal, bronze melts, sherds and animal bones were found. The finds from the excavations included belt appliqués, buckles and points and lead models for their production, a cross-encolpion, bronze finger-rings, earrings and buttons, bone awls and iron punchers.