D39

D39 is a dolmen in the Valtherbos, slightly north of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It stands on an open site with D38 and D40 and is the middle of the three hunebedden. The nearby hunebed D39a has disappeared. D39 is generally assigned to the Funnel Beaker culture and is dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE.

D39 is a relatively small hunebed, measuring 4,4 meter long and 2,5 meter wide. It originally had six supporting stones and three capstones, but only one capstone and two closing stones remain. Remains of the burial mound are visible. The mound was built in two phases: first up to the underside of the capstones during the Funnel Beaker culture, then raised during the Bell Beaker culture. The entrance was on the southwest.

D39 is recorded on the Hottingerkaart of 1788-1792. The State of the Netherlands bought it from A. Aikes (cum suis) in Emmen in 1871. Van Giffen investigated it, including trial trenches through the mound in 1925; J.N. Lanting examined the trenches again in 1984. The dolmen was restored in 1960. When Lukis and Dryden visited on 20 July 1878, four supporting stones were still present but buried in sand, and one capstone remained in place.

Monuments of this kind in northern Germany and the Netherlands belong to the Nordic megalithic tradition and were often reused by later communities. D39 was recorded by William Collings Lukis and sir Henry Dryden during their 1878 survey of forty hunebedden on the Hondsrug. Their drawings and report were unpublished until 2015, when the Drentse archaeologist dr. Wijnand van der Sanden presented the work; an exhibition was held that year in the Drents Museum.

D39 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 "D39 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.