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.

In 1904 trial-pits on the cliffs brought to light a group of larnax-burials not far from the one that was found in 1902 and is described in B.S.A. viii. p. 302, and Fig. 17, p. 302. The indications visible were, as then, pieces of limestone set in line. In several cases the burials were found at the bottom of shallow pits, but in the largest group (5–8 on the plan given in Fig. 9) the larnakes had been thrust under a projecting ledge of conglomerate in a hole scooped out to receive them, and the whole covered up with earth.

The new Library of the British School at Athens, built as a memorial to the late Francis Cranmer Penrose, first Director of the School, was formally opened by H.R.H. the Crown Prince of Greece at a meeting held on Saturday, April 8th, 1905, at 3.30 p.m. There were present their Majesties the King and Queen of the Hellenes, the Crown Prince and Princess, Prince and Princess Nicholas, Prince Andreas of Greece, Princess Louis of Battenberg, and the members of their suites, the British Minister, Sir Francis Elliot, K.C.M.G., and Lady Elliot, and the diplomatic representatives of France, Germany, Roumania, Russia, and the United States, Mr. C. Carapanos, Minister of Public Instruction, Prof. Spyridion Lambros, Rector of the University, Dr. Cavvadias, Ephor-General of Antiquities, the Hon. Reginald Walsh, British Consul, and many other members of the official world of Athens. Practically all the Vice-Presidents and most of the members of the Committee of the Congress including all the Directors of the foreign schools attended, besides many other scholars and archaeologists.