D32a

Großsteingrab Odoorn-Westeres was a megalithic burial monument of the Late Neolithic western group of the Funnel Beaker Culture, located west of Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It was a type of dolmen and is also known as D32a. The monument was destroyed between 1854 and 1869, but archaeological investigation of its remains took place in 1983.

The monument was probably a passage grave. By 1818, only three stones remained. The 1983 investigation showed that its burial chamber was about 11,5 m long and originally had eight pairs of wall stones along the long sides and one closing stone at each end. Traces of a stone floor were also found. Other megalithic tombs lie nearby, including Großsteingrab Odoorn, Großsteingrab Valthe-West, and several destroyed tombs.

The site was first mentioned in 1818. Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen, curator of the collection of Dutch antiquities at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, visited it in 1847 and published the first overview of Dutch megalithic tombs with architectural descriptions and schematic plans in the following year. Jan N. Lanting led the archaeological investigation of the remains in 1983.

The burial contained 72,8 g of cremated human bone from a young individual whose sex could not be determined. Pottery sherds allowed about 165 vessels to be reconstructed. They belonged to stages 3–5 of Anna Brindley’s typological system for the western group of the Funnel Beaker Culture, corresponding to 3300–3075 BCE. The site also yielded 4 g of burned animal bone, though it was not possible to determine whether these were tools or food offerings.

D32a 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 Odoorn-Westeres", shown in the original language.