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 Mycen/K. 3"7 apparently was an altar belonging to a remote age (Figs. 102, 103, 104), and closely resembling the Tiryns specimen {Figs. 81, 82), His hopes rose with every onward step: had not this archaic altar, he argued, been the instrument and witness of the ceremonies celebrated here in days gone by in honour of the dead ? Could doubt be possible, when around and level with the altar, boars' teeth, horns and bones of bulls, goats, and deer were picked up in large quantities, presumably the remains of of attar and (^rave. the victims sacrificed here through a long series of years ; along with skulls and human bones, one and all proclaiming aloud that they must be near a place of interment?' Excavations were pushed on to the rock, and at the end of October a vast rectangular cavity was discovered, eight metres long and nearly three metres broad, which was hewn in the side of the rock. The rain suspended operations for a while ; ere ' MiLCHiJFEK, Al/ieriis^/ie Miltkeiiuagen.