D41

The megalithic tomb of Emmen-Noord is a burial monument of the Neolithic western group of the Funnel Beaker culture in Emmen, in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It carries the van Giffen number D41. It lies on the north-western edge of Emmen on the Odoornerweg, in an area with many other megalithic tombs: Emmen-Schimmeres (D43) is 750 m to the south, Westenesch-Noord (D42) is 1,1 km to the west-south-west, and the three tombs at Emmerveld (D38–D40) lie 1,2 km to the north.

The tomb was discovered in 1809 by a stone hunter and investigated by Johannes Hofstede, who removed the mound covering and documented the chamber exceptionally well for its time. Later visitors included Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen in 1847, who published the first overview of the tombs of the Netherlands the following year, and Willem Pleyte, who in 1874 had all the megalithic tombs of Drenthe systematically photographed for the first time. In 1878 William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden made very precise plan and section drawings of 40 tombs.

Between 1904 and 1906 Willem Johannes de Wilde recorded all surviving Dutch megalithic tombs, though his notes on Emmen-Noord have been lost. Albert Egges van Giffen documented the site in 1918, and in 1960 he carried out an investigation together with Poul Kjaerum. Since 1983 the monument has been a national monument (Rijksmonument), and in 2017 it was recorded by photogrammetry for a 3D atlas of the surviving Dutch tombs.

The tomb is a passage grave oriented east-north-east to west-south-west. Its chamber was originally covered completely by an earth mound and encased in boulders, with no stone surround. The chamber is 5,9 m long and 2,8 m wide, and consists of four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one end stone at each narrow end, and four capstones. The gaps between the wall stones were filled with dry stonework, and the floor was paved in two layers of stones with a layer of finds between them. The entrance lies on the south side, between the first and second wall stones counted from the west.

In the investigation of 1809, numerous pottery finds were made, mostly between the two stone pavements. Three vessels were fully preserved: a tureen, a collared flask and a small bowl. A further 14 or 15 vessels were broken. No stone or flint tools are mentioned. Only the three complete vessels were kept, and they are now in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden.

D41 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 German article "Großsteingrab Emmen-Noord", shown in the original language.