ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SEDLARI (Aneta Bakamska – abakamska@gmail.com, Philip Mihailov) Pottery from the Early Bronze Age (3500 – 1900 BC), the Roman period and the Middle Ages, a Byzantine coin and a fragment of glass bracelet were found in the layer down to 50 cm in depth. Five mediaeval pits were discovered at 40 – 50 cm in depth. One pit contained two pots of the 11th century and the other pits contained sherds, charcoal and animal bones. Piles of burned clay wall plasters and pottery of the Early Bronze Age were discovered in the layer from 40 – 50 cm to 85 – 95 cm in depth. Thirty-six pits of the Early Bronze Age, dug out into the bedrock down to 1.50 m in depth and containing sherds, were explored. The pottery from the layer and the pits was identical and dated to Phase II of the Early Bronze Age. The pottery had parallels in Dikili Tash IIIB and Sitagroi VA. The Early Bronze Age finds included spindle whorls, jasper artifacts and flint artifacts (tools, flakes from sickles). Three of the flint tools had traces from wheat harvesting.