D35

Großsteingrab Valthe-Zuidwest is a megalithic tomb belonging to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. It lies southwest of Valthe, a district of Borger-Odoorn in the Dutch province of Drenthe, at the northern edge of the Valtherbos forest. The monument carries the Van-Giffen number D35, and several other large stone tombs are known in the surrounding area.

The tomb is an east-west oriented passage grave. Its chamber is 8,5 m long and 3,2 m wide, built from five pairs of wall stones on the long sides and one closing stone at each short side. Two of the original five capstones survive. The east closing stone has what may be a cup mark on its upper surface, and the entrance lies between the second and third wall stones of the southern long side. No stone kerb or forecourt stones have been identified.

The monument was first mentioned in 1815 by Nicolaus Westendorp. Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen visited it in 1847 and published an overview with structural descriptions and schematic plans the following year. Willem Pleyte and the photographer Jan Goedeljee photographed the dolmens of Drenthe systematically in 1874. Albert Egges van Giffen documented the site in 1918 for his atlas of Dutch megalithic tombs, the tomb was restored in 1952, and it has been a Rijksmonument since 1992.

Dolmens of this kind in the Netherlands are known as hunebedden. The western group of the Funnel Beaker culture built them between 3470 and 3250 BCE, and they remained in use until about 2760 BCE. The site is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. In 2017 it was recorded by photogrammetry in a 3D atlas created by the Stiftung Gratama with the Province of Drente and the Reichsuniversiteit Groningen.

D35 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-Zuidwest", shown in the original language.