ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SOZOPOL (Krastina Panaiotova – kpanayotova@abv.bg, Margarit Damyanov) Ten sondages were carried out. A layer c. 20 cm thick was discovered, containing single finds: sherds mostly from dishes, some of them with Late Neolithic decoration, a quern, stone pestles, one of them with traces from ochre, two flint artifacts. The finds probably slid down along the slope from the Neolithic settlement situated nearby and occupied during the second half of the 6th millennium BC.