PRESLAV (Georgi Maistorski – gmaistorski@gmail.com, Plamen Slavov) The exploration of the side wall of a fortification gate continued. It was situated at 120 m to the north of Fortification Tower 2 on the eastern fortification wall. The side wall of the gate was perpendicular to the fortification wall. The finds included sherds, glass slag, three fragments from cornices with torus, nails, small nails for horseshoes, an iron cross with insertion for a handle, and an anonymous Byzantine follis of the Class B (AD 1030/1035 – 1042) overstruck on another anonymous Byzantine follis of the Class A2. The side wall of the gate was 9 m long and 3.10 m wide. The first two courses were built of ashlars and there was an emplectum with mortar from the third course upwards. The foundations were 1 m deep with wooden posts driven into the ground under the structure. The side wall of the gate extended at 1.50 m in front of the fortification wall, which was 3 m wide, and at 4.50 m behind the fortification wall. During the second half of the 13th century the terrain in front of the fortification gate was drained from the river running there and a road paved with limestone rubble and flat boulders, 2.90 m wide, was constructed. A coin of AD 1225 – 1250 was found under the pavement and it was terminus post quem for the construction of the road.