ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SEVLIEVO (Iordan Aleksiev – yordan_aleksiev@abv.bg, Nadezhda Boteva) Six graves had been discovered in the Christian necropolis at the Western gate of the fortress in 1992 and seven graves in 2007. Three graves were discovered during the present excavations. An adult was buried in grave No. 8. His right hand was placed on the pelvis and his left hand was on the chest. A small child was buried in grave No. 9. The walls and the floor of the burial pit were faced with stone slabs. The grave was covered with four horizontal stone slabs. Two copper earrings were found near the skull. An adult was buried in grave No. 10. The walls of the burial pit were faced with vertical stone slabs. The right hand of the deceased was placed on the pelvis and the left hand was on the chest. The grave goods include a whetstone, an iron nail (probably from a coffin), a knucklebone and a silver finger-ring with a plate showing a pentagram inside a circle. Two rooms, oriented east – west, were documented in the Southern suburb, on a terrace above the discovered houses. Room A measured 4.56 m by 3.20 m. The walls were 65 cm wide and were preserved up to 1.35 m in height. Room B was 4.20 m long. The walls were 70 cm wide. The rooms were built of stone slabs bonded with mud.