Multiple disposals dominate the period 3500-2500bc at 86% of the whole in Table 377, evenly split between the multiple similar and multiple varied types. Single disposals are low at 15% incidence, well below the average for all areas (28%). The pattern then shifts quite sharply, the single disposals moving to 61% site incidence, and the other two dropping, with multiple varied disposals second in order at 23%. Thereafter small numbers of incidence of the types (Table 376) make the percentages an unreliable basis for conclusions without more context. There seems to be a tendency for single disposals to be the more prevalent over 14/1300bc-AD43, for multiple varied disposals to follow next in order of incidence, and for a more even incidence of the three types to develop in 100bc-AD43.
Table 380 gives a strong impression of a more even incidence of all three disposal types throughout the whole timespan, with the main variation happening in 2500-14/1300bc. In that period the single disposals and the multiple varied disposals account for 90% of all incidences (split 49:41%). With the other periods in the range 33-43% for single disposals, 31-38% for multiple similar disposals and 22- 36% for multiple varied disposals, it can be seen that otherwise the variations are not great, but they are again based on small numbers.
This area also presents another impression of greater evenness of incidence (Table 383). It shows the sharp drop in multiple similar disposals in 2500-14/1300bc (12% against the range 23-26% at other times), and a peak similar to that in the other two areas in single disposal incidence in the same period. This disposal type shows the same tendency to fall over succeeding periods, but the decline is marginally less in the south east than elsewhere. Over the same period multiple varied disposal incidences rise, leaving the multiple similar disposal steadily represented at 23-26%. The numbers underlying these percentages (Table 382) are small in some instances.
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