A good deal of work was done on this block in this year's campaign. Our main objects were to work out the stratification of walls in the regions uncovered last year, to clear certain rooms still undug, and to find the limits of the block to the south and east. The general result was to show that whilst the block at its latest period consisted of the large mansion shown on the key-plan, the garden and court connected with it, and two smaller houses, yet abundant remains of earlier houses exist, especially in the eastern and northern regions. The open space 18, 19, especially covered the Megaron of the earlier house, with its four pillarbases standing round the hearth, as in the contemporary house in Block β. The Early Minoan discoveries that this work led to in room 32 have been described above. The western limit of the block was found to be a street on which the Palace wall abutted. The southern limit is not yet cleared up. The street that runs west from Street λ-δ has been traced no further than square 6 F; west of this, that is in square 6 E, the Palace abuts immediately on houses of a much earlier date.