D32c
DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE
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Das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 war eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur bei Odoorn, einem Ortsteil von Borger-Odoorn in der niederländischen Provinz Drenthe. Es wurde zu einem unbekannten Zeitpunkt zerstört. Seine Überreste wurden 1984 archäologisch untersucht. Das Grab trägt die van-Giffen-Nummer D32c.
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Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 1 was a megalithic tomb of the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture at Odoorn, a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It lay north of Odoorn, east of the Exlooerweg, in an area containing many other megalithic tombs. The monument is also identified as D32c.
The tomb was probably a passage grave. Archaeologist Jan N. Lanting found that its burial chamber was about 5 m long and between 1.8 m and 2 m wide. It had four pairs of wall stones along the long sides and one closing stone at each short side. Little survived of the structure, and its excavation yielded only a few finds.
The time when the tomb was destroyed is unknown. Archive photographs from 1929 already showed the site without any stones. Its remains were archaeologically investigated in 1984 under Jan N. Lanting’s direction. The monument is dated to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE by typological estimate.
Dolmens of this general tradition in northern Germany and the Netherlands were built by the Funnel Beaker culture. In the Netherlands they are known as hunebedden, and the western group built them between 3470 and 3250 BCE. These tombs belong to a broader tradition of Nordic megalith architecture that emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE.
No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 1", shown in the original language.
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D32c is a dolmen in Borger-Odoorn, Germany. Wikidata describes it as: former dolmen in Odoorn, 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-Noorderveld 1", shown in the original language.
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Das Grab befand sich nördlich von Odoorn, östlich des Exlooerwegs. In der näheren Umgebung gibt es zahlreiche weitere Großsteingräber. 1 km westsüdwestlich befindet sich das Großsteingrab Odoorn (D32), 1,4 km nordöstlich das Großsteingrab Exloo-Zuid (D31), 2,1 km südsüdöstlich das Großsteingrab Valthe-West (D34) und 2,9 km südsüdöstlich das Großsteingrab Valthe-Zuidwest (D35). Auch mehrere zerstörte Gräber sind aus dieser Gegend bekannt. 1,2 km südsüdöstlich lag das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 2 (D32d), 1,9 km südwestlich das Großsteingrab Odoorn-Westeres (D32a) und 2,1 km südsüdöstlich das Großsteingrab Valthe-Valtherveld (D33).
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Der genaue Zeitpunkt der Zerstörung des Grabes ist unbekannt. Archivfotos von 1929 zeigen den Fundplatz bereits ganz ohne Steine. 1984 wurden die Überreste des Grabes unter Leitung von Jan N. Lanting archäologisch untersucht.
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Bei der Anlage handelte es sich vermutlich um ein Ganggrab. Lanting konnte bei seiner Grabung feststellen, dass die Grabkammer eine Länge von etwa 5 m und eine Breite zwischen 1,8 m und 2 m hatte. Sie bestand aus vier Wandsteinpaaren an den Langseiten und je einem Abschlussstein an den Schmalseiten.
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Lantings Grabung erbrachte nur wenige Funde.
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The summary at the top of this page was written by MiniMax-M3 (2026-11-07) from the cited Wikipedia article “Großsteingrab Odoorn-Noorderveld 1”, translated from German. The numbers in it were checked automatically against the source text. The rest of the page is the article itself, the structured records and computed distances.
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About this kind of monument
German and Dutch Hünengräber (hunebedden)
The megalithic tombs of northern Germany and the Netherlands were built by the Funnel Beaker culture (about 4100 to 2800 BCE), and the style, called Nordic megalith architecture, emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In the Netherlands the tombs are the hunebedden, built between 3470 and 3250 BCE by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and used until about 2760 BCE. Of an estimated 100 original tombs, 54 are preserved, 52 of them in the province of Drenthe and two in Groningen. After the Funnel Beaker culture ended the sites were reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, to a lesser extent, into the Middle Ages.
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern up to 5,000 megalith tombs were erected, and more than 1,000 are preserved and protected by law; they belong to the youngest and easternmost part of the western European tradition. Most are dolmens, often lying inside a circular or trapezoid frame of standing stones. Locally they are known as Hünengräber, "giants' tombs", or Großsteingräber, "large stone tombs"; the trapezoid frame is a Hünenbett, "giants' bed", and the circular one a Bannkreis. Between 1964 and 1974 Ewald Schuldt excavated over a hundred sites there and sorted them into simple dolmens, extended dolmens, passage graves, great dolmens, unchambered long barrows and stone cists.
Folklore: the German and Dutch names, with Hüne meaning "giant", carry the old idea that giants were buried here. This is a tradition; the stones were placed by Neolithic farmers.
When visiting, look for the capstones on their supports and the frame of kerbstones around them.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Megaliths in the Netherlands, Wikipedia: Megaliths in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Wikipedia: Nordic megalith architecture, Wikipedia: Funnel beaker culture, Wikipedia: Dolmen · CC BY-SA 4.0
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Est. 3500–2800 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for dolmens in Germany; this site has not been dated itself. German dolmens (Huengrab) belong to the Nordic megalith tradition which emerged predominantly between 3500 and 2800 BC.Source for this date
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