D22

Hunebed D22 is a dolmen near Bronneger in the municipality of Borger-Odoorn, Netherlands. It lies on a small site beside the better-preserved Hunebed D21, with which it is sometimes called a pair of twins. Nearby are Hunebed D23, Hunebed D24 and Hunebed D25, as well as two Bronze Age burial mounds.

D22 is the smallest surviving hunebed in the Netherlands. It is 4,5 meter long and 3 meter wide, with two visible capstones. Five supporting stones are hidden underground, together with closing stones. The monument is attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture and is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

Van Giffen examined the monument in 1918 and described it as being in a fairly original condition. He found several supporting and closing stones beneath the two visible capstones, along with 41 pieces of pottery. D22 was restored in 1960. Earlier accounts by William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden recorded that only the westernmost supporting stone and the one beside it were visible, while oak trees were damaging the monument.

Monuments of this kind in the Netherlands are hunebedden, built between 3470 and 3250 BCE by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and used until about 2760 BCE. An estimated 100 were originally built, and 54 are preserved. In 2015, the work of Lukis and Dryden was published by Drentse archaeologist dr. Wijnand van der Sanden, with an exhibition held at the Drents Museum.

D22 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 "D22 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.