D10

Großsteingrab Gasteren is a megalithic tomb belonging to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. It stands north of Gasteren, a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe, on open heathland. Other megalithic tombs nearby include Großsteingrab Schipborg (D7) and Großsteingrab Anloo-Noord (D8).

The grave chamber is oriented east-southeast to west-northwest and measures about 6,7 m in length and about 3,1 m in width. It probably originally had four pairs of side stones, one end stone at each short side, and four wall stones. By 1918, the four north-side wall stones, three south-side wall stones, both end stones and two fallen capstones remained. Its precise type is unknown, and no stone enclosure could be identified.

The monument was first mentioned in 1694 by M. Bolhuis. Detailed study and drawing followed in the 19th century, including work by Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen, Willem Pleyte, William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden. Restorations took place between 1869 and 1878, in 1952 and in 1996. Albert Egges van Giffen documented the site in 1918 and assigned it the number D10. It has been a National Monument since 1978.

The site is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. Monuments of this kind in the Netherlands are known as hunebedden and were built by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. After that culture ended, such sites were reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, less often, into the Middle Ages.

D10 is a dolmen in Aa en Hunze, Germany. Wikidata describes it as: dolmen in the Netherlands. A typological estimate: 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Gasteren", shown in the original language.