As I understand it, there's currently evidence for arable farming in Britain between 4000BC - 3300BC, and again from 1500 BC onwards (those dates are very appro

As I understand it, there's currently evidence for arable farming in Britain between 4000BC - 3300BC, and again from 1500 BC onwards (those dates are very approximate, obviously!) What happened between is anyone's guess. There may have been a wholesale shift to pastoralism, or farming may have continued in some form that doesn't show up in the archaeological record that we've been able to decipher so far. Stevens and Fuller (2012) is the usual reference for the maximal claim for the abandonment of agriculture: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/did-neolithic-farming-fail-the-case-for-a-bronze-age-agricultural-revolution-in-the-british-isles/DDC019088534FB8D35AF356D346842E1 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ab...