D24

D24 is a hunebed, or dolmen, near Bronneger in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It belongs to a group of five hunebedden along the Steenakkersweg, a sandy road leading to Bronneger. Together with the smaller D23 and the larger D25, it forms a more isolated group in the woods. The nearby D22 and D21 stand farther west at the edge of a field.

D24 is attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture and is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. The monument is 6,7 meter long and 2,4 meter wide. It originally had eight supporting stones and four capstones. Very little of D24 and D23 survives, and they can now barely be recognized as hunebedden.

The first known written account came from Jacobus Craandijk in 1879. A.E. van Giffen described D24 as “zeer onvolledig en verkeert in een sterk gehavenden staat” and investigated it in 1925. At that time, two sunken and fallen capstones, two closing stones and six side stones remained. The five hunebedden near Bronneger are managed by Het Drentse Landschap.

William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden recorded the monument in 1878 as hunebed IV on Plan XX. Their drawings and measurements documented two capstones, four supporting stones on the south side, one on the north side, two closing stones, a capstone in the burial chamber and a remnant of the burial mound. Their unpublished work was finally published by Wijnand van der Sanden in 2015.

D24 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 "D24 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.