ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PERNIK (Vasilka Paunova – vasder@gmail.com) The explorations in Sondage II continued. The following graves were discovered in Trench 274: No. 36 with a child burial, No. 37 with an adult burial, No. 41 with an adult burial, No. 42 with a child burial, and No. 47 with a cremation burial and grave goods that included three bronze coins (two minted by Crispus in AD 324 in Thessalonica and Heraclea, one minted by Constantius II in AD 324 – 330 in Nicomedia), an iron knife, an iron buckle and sherds. The following graves were discovered in Trench 273: No. 38 with an adult burial and traces from wooden coffin, No. 43 with an adult burial and No. 44 with an adult burial. The following graves were discovered in Trench 234: No. 39 with an adult burial oriented northeast – southwest, with head to the northeast and a pot placed as a grave good, and No. 40 with an adult burial. The following graves were discovered in Trench 214: No. 45 with an adult burial and No. 46 with an adult burial. Grave No. 47 dated to the AD 330s and grave No. 39 probably dated earlier than AD 325 – 350. Both graves belonged to the pre-Christian period of the necropolis. The rest of the graves discovered were Christian and dated to the second half of the 4th – 6th centuries AD. Thracian material of the 1st millennium BC was also found: a bronze arrowhead and sherds, originating from destroyed occupation layers or constructions.