D34

Großsteingrab Valthe-West is a dolmen belonging to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. It lies west of Valthe, a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe, beside the Hunebedweg and close to the border with Odoorn. Several other dolmens and the remains of destroyed tombs are known in the surrounding area.

The monument is a passage grave aligned southeast to northwest. Its chamber is 7,8 m long and 3 m wide, with five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one closing stone at each short side. Three of the original five capstones survive. The entrance is between the second and third wall stones on the southwestern side, with a passage formed by two wall stones in front. No stone enclosure could be identified.

The grave was first mentioned in 1818 by R. Boelken. It was visited in 1847 by Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen and documented in 1878 by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden. Albert Egges van Giffen recorded it in 1918, investigated and restored it in 1952, and found the chamber completely emptied. Photogrammetric recording took place in 2017, and excavations directed by Daan Raemaekers were carried out in 2021 and 2022.

The monument is also known as D34. It belongs to the Funnel Beaker tradition, which in the Netherlands built hunebedden between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used them until about 2760 BCE. Such sites were later reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, less extensively, into the Middle Ages.

D34 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-West", shown in the original language.