D38

D38 is a dolmen in the Valtherbos, slightly north of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It stands on the same open site as D39 and D40 and is the northernmost of the three. The former D39a lay nearby. The monument is attributed to the Funnel Beaker culture and is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

D38 measures 8,0 meter long and 3,0 meter wide, with its entrance on the southwest. Two of the five capstones remain, while the nine supporting stones and two closing stones lie almost entirely beneath the sand. The outline of the mound is still recognizable. The mound was later lowered, and two surviving capstones no longer occupy their original positions.

The dolmen appears on the Hottingerkaart of 1788-1792 and was described by Nicolaas Westendorp in 1822. The Dutch state bought it from A. Aikes (cum suis) at Emmen in 1871. By the time Van Giffen visited, it was incomplete and neglected. Its chamber contents were never scientifically examined, and the monument was restored in 1960.

William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden visited D38 on 20 July 1878 and recorded forty hunebedden on the Hondsrug through measurements, descriptions and watercolours. Lukis noted small urn fragments outside the chamber and a arrowhead. Their unpublished material was published in 2015 by dr. Wijnand van der Sanden. In the wider tradition, monuments of this kind in the Netherlands were built by the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and were later reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures.

D38 is a dolmen in Emmen, 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 Dutch article "D38 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.