D40

Hunebed D40 lies with D38 and D39 in an open area of the Valtherbos, a little north of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe. The vanished hunebed D39a was nearby. D40 is the southernmost of the three and belongs to a group of megalithic tombs traditionally associated with the Funnel Beaker culture.

D40 is 4,9 meter long and 3,6 meter wide. Two capstones and four supporting stones remain. One portal stone is still in place, while the other ended up in the burial chamber. The entrance faces east, and traces of a mound built in three phases are visible. Its size resembles D22, while its form resembles G1.

The monument appeared on the Hottingerkaart of 1788-1792. The State of the Netherlands bought it from J. IJken in Emmen in 1870. Van Giffen examined the mound in 1918 and 1921, finding evidence that its stones had been used to raise the capstones; he also recovered the second portal stone but did not replace it. Eighty pieces of pottery dated to 3300 to 3200 v.Chr., along with three stone tools, were found in the chamber and near the entrance. D40 was restored in 1960, and J.N. Lanting studied the remaining mound in 1987.

Lukis and Dryden visited D40 on 20 July 1878 for the Society of Antiquaries. They recorded that the tomb then had five supporting stones, at most two capstones, and a mound about 22 meter across and about 1,5 meter high. Their work was published by dr. Wijnand van der Sanden in 2015 and was praised for its high quality. The estimated date of D40 is 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE, based on typological comparison.

D40 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 "D40 (hunebed)", shown in the original language.