D29

Hunebed D29 lies with hunebed D28 a little east of the village of Borger, toward Buinen, south of the N374 in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The two hunebedden stand in a small wooded area in the middle of farmland, reached by a narrow sandy path.

D29 has only two capstone stones, unlike nearby D28, which has three. One capstone has slid downward at an angle. Van Giffen considered that these may be two halves of one broken capstone, with the start of the burial mound still present. A record made by William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden in July 1878 showed that D29 then had two capstones, with the eastern one missing, ten supporting stones, and two portal stones at the south. The burial mound had recently been lowered.

H. Tiessing reported in 1905 that many antiquities had been disturbed by work carried out on the Buineres between 1880 and 1890. Archaeological research at these hunebedden was carried out several times, including by Van Giffen in 1927 and by the Biologisch-Archaeologisch Instituut (BAI) te Groningen in 1985. The contents of D29 have never been scientifically investigated. It is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

Hunebedden belong to the Nordic megalith tradition, a style that emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In the Netherlands they were built between 3470 and 3250 BCE by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and used until about 2760 BCE. Concern about restoration in England led the Society of Antiquaries to commission Lukis and Dryden to record the hunebedden on the Hondsrug. Their work, published by dr. Wijnand van der Sanden in 2015, was praised as being of high quality.

D29 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 "D29 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.