The 1963 excavation at Palaikastro-Kastri in eastern Crete produced about 150 marine shells. The species preserved are listed in Table 1, and their date and context in Table 2. Significant shells from the collection are compared with other Minoan examples in Part I. The shell evidence for purple-dye production at Palaikastro is studied along with the other evidence from the Bronze Age Mediterranean in Part II.

Shells from the excavation of the West Court House at Knossos are analysed and compared with those from other Neolithic and Early Minoan sites.

An intensive surface survey of Grimadha, ancient Tanagra, was carried out in 1985. Its situation is discussed, together with earlier descriptions and accounts of the site. The physical remains are described.

Excavation of a further part of the EH cemetery at Manika, Chalkis, has revealed eight chamber tombs. Contents suggest influence from the Cycladic islands, though the form of graves is more local, or mainland. Secondary burials suggest the graves were used for a long period, perhaps as much as a century. The significance of the evidence from these tombs for the relationship between the Cyclades and the mainland in the Early Bronze Age is considered.

The relief, on a marble stele, was originally published in 1903 by D. Philios. The present article gives a reconsideration of it. It is concluded that the relief, dated c. 510 BC, is funerary, not votive, and was reused subsequently in a wall, probably the fourth-century fortification wall.

This shell applique in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford was acquired by Evans in Crete in 1894. He was told that it came from the Mesara, but there is no evidence to link it with the Ayios Onoufrios deposit. The material is Aegean Spondylus gaederopus L., not Tridacna from the Red Sea. The plaque is probably Cretan work of the period of the Early Palaces (Middle Minoan I–II), not Early Minoan or Archaic Greek as Evans at different times believed. It seems to represent, not a negro or ‘negroid’ as often claimed, but a physical type attested by other representations of Bronze Age date in Crete and elsewhere in the Aegean area.

The photographs of Athens in the collection of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, now in the Library of the University of Birmingham, are catalogued. They are shown to comprise, in the main, two series, one purchased, of which the majority are original prints of William Stillman's photographs of 1869, the second consisting of photographs apparently taken for Sir Lawrence when he visited Athens in the later 1870s. Since the later series often deliberately duplicated views in the earlier series, comparisons can be made. These demonstrate that part of the façade to the west wing of the Propylaia was preserved intact from Antiquity inside the Frankish tower.

This article is concerned with the Macedonian vaulted tombs as a specifically Macedonian contribution to the development of Greek architecture. It looks at the theory that the technique was inspired by eastern examples. Mesopotamian and Egyptian vaulting techniques are described, and shown to be different. It therefore follows that the Macedonian technique was not copied from the Near East.

The principal discoveries in 1986 at this prehistoric settlement in Macedonia were two Iron Age apsidal buildings and a late Bronze Age storeroom with masses of cereals and other crops preserved by charring.

A completely preserved roundel in the Ashmolean Museum is described. It is argued that it probably comes from Evans's 1901–4 excavations in the area of the Temple Repository at Knossos.

From a test made in 1908 north of the Theatral Area of the palace at Knossos came a unique triple-bodied jug in a mixed Early to Late Minoan fill. The fabric, decorative style, and motifs support an EM IIA date for this unusual vase. The jug may have been meant for funerary rather than domestic use.