The first Proto Bulgarian necropolis was found September 2007 near Balchik. The find is situated at the territory of military camp and that’s the reason to be found undisturbed by treasure hunters. That ceramic material and the metal buckles are giving presumable period and it is about the first decades after the formation of the Bulgarian empire.

That’s the earliest necropolis ever found from Khan Asparouh’s Bulgarians, says professor Ludmila Doncheva from the archaeological museum at Bulgarian Academy for Science.
Markedly, the dead humans are inhumed by two separate ceremonies- by committing a bodies to the ground and by cremation. At the first variant, the funerals are at bigger depth, mainly at the western sector. At many cases there are animals, inhumed along with the human- cattles,cows,calfs,birds, placed at the legs of the inhumed person. At the funerals are placed also ceramic vessels. At some of the cases these vessels are pots or jugs, some of them left with food.
At the funerals with cremation are layed the burned bones of the dead human. There are small brick cells,where are placed burned bones, gifts for the dead humans-often ceramic vessels.
Proto Bulgarian necropolis were found at some other places near the seaside - Devnq, Topola, Hitovo, Novi Pazar, Bdinci and other.

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