ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF SABRANO (Anelia Bozhkova – aneliabozkova@yahoo.com, Zhivko Uzunov) The Dyado Ivanova Settlement Mound is situated near the site. Archaeological materials from the Neolithic and the Chalcolithic periods, the Bronze Age and the 1st millennium BC were documented in the settlement mound. Thirty pits were explored on the site. The pits were either single, or grouped, while some of them were overlapping. The pits were 0.25 – 1.60 m in depth and 0.70 – 2.80 m in diameter and some of them had cylindrical or pear-like shapes. The pits contained charcoal, fragmentary clay wall plaster and animal bones (mostly from ox). Sherds were found in 27 pits and in 26 pits the sherds originated from vessels (dishes, bowls and pots) from the Late Neolithic period (Karanovo IV) of the late 6th and the beginning of the 5th millennia BC. Sherds of monochrome Thracian pottery of the 5th century BC were found in pit No. 18. Flint tools and flakes of sickles were found in the Late Neolithic pits. A ditch was partly explored in Sector 3. It was 2.70 – 2.78 m wide and 1.14 – 1.21 m deep. The ditch contained fragmentary burned clay wall plaster, querns, animal bones, charcoal, a flint scraper and sherds from dishes, bowls and pots from the Early Bronze Age (Mihalich Phase) dated to 2950 – 2530 BC. A grave with four skeletons was discovered in trenches A28-29. The burial pit had a rectangular layout, 1.86 m by 1.46 m in size. Three of the deceased were rested on their back in a Hocker position, with heads to the northeast and faces directed to the west. The grave goods included seven ceramic vessels (a cup, a bowl, a dish, a pot and three jugs) of the beginning of the Early Bronze Age with parallels in the Ezero Settlement Mound (XIII occupation layer) dated to the second half of the 4th millennium BC.