D19

D19 is a dolmen attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture. It lies together with D20 west of the village of Drouwen on the Steenhopenweg, just in front of a viaduct built in 2006 beneath the N34 in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is generally dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

D19 is 15,5 meter long and 3,5 meter wide. It originally had eight capstones, but one is missing. A capstone and remains of two others lie in the burial chamber. There are four portal stones, and another stone lies beside the dolmen. The western chamber once contained three upright stones forming a compartment, a feature not found in any other hunebed in the Netherlands. There are no wreath stones.

In 1847, the local authorities of Rolde planned to sell D19 and D20, prompting the Dutch government to buy both monuments for hondervijftig gulden. Jan Hendrik Holwerda excavated them in 1912, the first modern archaeological investigation of Dutch hunebedden. Finds included pottery fragments, flint arrowheads, copper strips, thirteen flint axes, nine amber beads, human bone, tooth caps and a collar-necked bottle. The dolmen was restored in 1998.

In July 1878, William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden recorded the condition of forty hunebedden on the Hondsrug, including D19. Their measurements, descriptions and watercolours were published by Wijnand van der Sanden in 2015 and shown in an exhibition at the Drents Museum. Their work was described as being of high quality. Nearby, traces of a prehistoric cart track can still be seen.

D19 is a dolmen in Borger-Odoorn, 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 Dutch article "D19 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.