D23

D23 is a very small dolmen, called a hunebed, near Bronneger in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It forms a separate, wooded group with D24 and the much larger D25 along the Steenakkersweg, a sandy road leading to Bronneger. The nearby monuments D22 and D21 stand farther west at the edge of a field.

D23 measures 6.0 meter long and 2.7 meter wide. It was originally built with eight supporting stones and four capstones, but very little of it survives. It is so badly damaged that it can barely be recognized as a hunebed. It was investigated in 1925 by Van Giffen, who described it as "geheel verstoord". At that time, three capstones, two closing stones in their original positions and three supporting stones remained.

The monument is attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture and is dated here by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. Jacobus Craandijk wrote about the five hunebedden southeast of Bronneger in 1879. Archaeological finds near D21 included many objects found by prof. A.E. van Giffen. Lukis and Dryden also reported a pipe point and fragments of urns beside D23.

The five hunebedden at Bronneger are managed by Het Drentse Landschap. Lukis and Dryden recorded D23 in 1878 as hunebed III on Plan XIX. Its original dimensions could no longer be determined, although archaeologist Janssen proposed that it had five capstones. The mound surrounding it had been lowered but was still 1 meter high and 14 meter in diameter. Their work was published in 2015 by dr. Wijnand van der Sanden.

D23 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 "D23 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.