D26

Großsteingrab Drouwenerveld is a megalithic burial monument of the Late Neolithic western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. It lies southeast of Drouwen, a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The monument is also known as D26, its number in the van-Giffen system.

It is a northeast-southwest oriented passage grave. The oval stone enclosure is about half preserved, while the positions of other stones are known from their sockets. The burial chamber measures 12 m long and about 3.8 m wide. Six pairs of wall stones formed its long sides, with one closing stone at each short side. Five of the original six capstones survive, and a two-pair passage leads to an entrance on the southern side.

The site was first mentioned in 1711 and was examined in detail by several researchers during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1968 and 1970, the burial chamber was archaeologically excavated under Albert Egges van Giffen, Jan Albert Bakker, and Willem Glasbergen, then restored. It is the last megalithic grave in the Netherlands to have been fully excavated and has been a National Monument since 1993. Its estimated date is 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

The grave contained cremated remains assigned to five individuals: a child aged between 0 and 6 years, a young person aged between 12 and 15 years, a probable man aged between 18 and 40 years, a probable woman who died in adulthood, and an adult of uncertain sex who died before 60. Excavators also recovered sherds from 157 Funnel Beaker culture vessels, dated to about 3300–3075 BC, along with small quantities of burned animal bones. Megalithic tombs in northern Germany and the Netherlands generally belong to the Funnel Beaker culture tradition.

D26 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 German article "Großsteingrab Drouwenerveld", shown in the original language.