D14 — Hunebed D14 bij Eexterhalte

Dolmen

D14

Germany

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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Das Großsteingrab Eexterhalte ist eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur bei Eext, einem Ortsteil von Aa en Hunze in der niederländischen Provinz Drenthe. Das Grab trägt die Van-Giffen-Nummer D14.

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Großsteingrab Eexterhalte is a megalithic burial monument belonging to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. It lies south of Eext, a district of Aa en Hunze in Drenthe, Netherlands, on a meadow east of the Stationsstraat. The site is reached by a car park and has an information panel. It carries the Van-Giffen number D14.

The monument is an approximately east-west-oriented passage grave. Its chamber has a slightly oval plan, measuring 18 m long and 4.5 m wide. Nine pairs of wall stones line the long sides, with one closing stone at each short side; six of the original nine capstones remain. Eight enclosure stones also survive, but the mound was largely removed in 1871. The original entrance passage had two pairs of wall stones, and one missing stone's socket was filled with concrete.

The tomb was first recorded in 1756 by Johannes van Lier and was drawn in 1756 and 1769 by Cornelis van Noorde and Petrus Camper. Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen visited it in 1847 and published an overview in the following year. William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden examined it in 1878, while Albert Egges van Giffen excavated it in 1927. Restorations took place in 1960, 1965 and 1996, and the monument has been a Nationaldenkmal since 1978.

The grave has been dated by typological estimate to 3500–2800 BCE. Finds include 472 g of cremated human remains belonging to one individual of unknown age and sex, 4.5 g of burned animal bones whose function could not be determined, Funnel Beaker ceramics, and sherds of a Late Neolithic bell beaker. Van Lier also reported a vessel containing a Roman coin found outside an enclosure stone in 1750. The site was recorded by photogrammetry in 2017 and surveyed with ground-penetrating radar in 2021.

No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Eexterhalte", shown in the original language.

Großsteingrab Eexterhalte

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D14 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 Eexterhalte", shown in the original language.