Novopazarska Spa – Igralište, stands to the east of the Turkish bathhouse and the football pitch the construction of which ruined most of the site. Archeological exploration in the Novopazarska Spa was conducted, with interruptions, from 1983 to 1989, on a smaller scale and with modest funds. They were initiated by the demolition of older buildings when the terrain was leveled for the football pitch and covered a modest-sized area between the pitch and the barracks on one and the road and the hill slope on the other side.

Novopazarska Spa was inhabited as early as the late Bronze Age, about 1200 BC, which is confirmed by four explored mounds in the southwestern part of the site with pyre burial places with the remains stored in urns. Burial continued during the early Iron Age, about 700 BC, when a larger mound was made on the western side of the site, in most part destroyed during the construction of the pitch.

These cult places were observed as late as the Roman times, as testified by votive monuments from Novopazarska Spa dedicated to Jupiter and other deities of the place, where the cult of a genii – protector of mineral waters was certainly developed.

Two smaller temples were unearthed on the site, erected towards the end of the 2nd and the early 3rd century, connected to the medicinal water springs and the tradition of the place itself. One of the temples underwent extensive reconstruction in the 4th century and turned into a smallish one aisled church. On the ruined part of the site stood a built tomb from the 4th century which had for a top of the tombstone stele datable to the early 3rd century. The largest, and at the same time the structure which sustained most damage on the site is an early Byzantine basilica. A part of the apse was preserved, a southern wall and the chapel next to it. On the outer side of the apse a retaining wall against the mudslide from the slope was built. The basilica is partially dug into the slope so as to respect room of the neighboring chapels.

The erection of the basilica is connected with the construction works commissioned by emperor Justinian, assigning it to the 6th century. It may have been the seat of an episcope, connected with the episcopate of a nearby city. Arthur Evans hypothesized that in Novopazarska Spa the remains of Arse may lay, the stronghold restored by emperor Justinian in the 6th century. Since there are no elements of a fortification in the spa, researchers of the site identify the antique Arsa with the site Ras-Postenje.

Individual monuments – several antique monuments were found on the territory of Novi Pazar. During conservation works on a church with a necropolis (within the medieval Trgovište), a damaged stela was found in the access wall of the tomb. Two smallish altars were built into the walls of the basilica on Trgovište-Pazarište. One of them was devoted to the goddess Nemesis, and the other was worked out but without the inscription. Another altar brought to the Altun-alem Mosque from an unknown site, and then to the museum, was also dedicated to Nemesis. These, as well as another two altars make a mention of beneficiarii consularis VII of Claudius legion headquartered in Viminacium, temporarily stationed in the beneficiary station in the Raska valley. In the village of Pope, in the course of work on St. Petеr and Paul's Church, a Roman stela was found identical to the one from Novopazarska Spa, but without the inscription.

In the Great or Paričko Graveyard, when digging a grave pit, a hoard with 42 bronze Roman coins was unearthed. The time span of the hoard ranges from 336/7 to 355/61 year.