D25

D25 is a dolmen near Bronneger in the Dutch province of Drenthe, one of five hunebedden in the area. It belongs to a separate, more wooded group with D23 and D24 along the Steenakkersweg, a sandy road leading to Bronneger. D22 and D21 lie farther west at the edge of a field, near two Bronze Age burial mounds.

D25 is attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture and is the largest of the three monuments in its group. The structure is oriented east-west and has four capstones and eight supporting stones, most of which sit largely in the ground. When A.E. van Giffen examined it in 1925, he recorded it as complete, with four capstones, eight supporting stones and two closing stones.

William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden recorded D25 in July 1878, identifying it as hunebed V on Plan XXI. They found many pottery fragments in and around the chamber, including pieces from 36 different urns, along with a fragment of burned bone. They also noted signs of recent digging in the chamber. The finds are held by the British Museum. Van Giffen later found sherds from 60 pots.

Monuments of this kind in the Netherlands are hunebedden built by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used until about 2760 BCE. After the Funnel Beaker culture ended, such sites were reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, less extensively, into the Middle Ages. The five hunebedden near Bronneger are managed by Het Drentse Landschap.

D25 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 "D25 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.