D33

Großsteingrab Valthe-Valtherveld was a megalithic tomb of the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture, located near Valthe, a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It stood directly on the border with Odoorn beside the Hunebedweg, 150 m north of the surviving Großsteingrab Valthe-West (D34). The tomb is also known by the van Giffen number D33.

The monument was already largely destroyed when Albert Egges van Giffen cleared its stones aside in December 1954 and excavated the remains of the burial chamber. The few finds were limited. Van Giffen had recorded nine stones in 1918, although his ground plan showed only eight, but he noted eleven stones in 1954. Because of the extensive damage, the original appearance could not be reconstructed.

The tomb was probably a passage grave aligned southeast to northwest. Its burial chamber measured between 7 m and 7.5 m in length, but its precise form remains unknown. In March 1956, the Dutch army transported the stones to Schoonoord, where they were used in the restoration of the Großsteingrab “De Papeloze Kerk” (D49). The site was documented by several scholars and photographers during the 19th century, and Willem Johannes de Wilde recorded surviving tombs between 1904 and 1906, although his notes on D33 were later lost.

Dolmens of this kind belong to the Nordic megalith tradition, whose style emerged between 3500 and 2800 BCE. In the Netherlands, the hunebedden were 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 in Drenthe and two in Groningen. This dating for D33, 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE, is based on typological estimate.

D33 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 Valthe-Valtherveld", shown in the original language.