D46 — Hunebed D46 in de wijk Angelslo van Emmen

Dolmen

D46

Germany

DatedEst. 3500–2800 BCE

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Das Großsteingrab Angelslo-Noord ist eine megalithische Grabanlage der jungsteinzeitlichen Westgruppe der Trichterbecherkultur in Angelslo, einem Wohngebiet der Gemeinde Emmen in der niederländischen Provinz Drenthe. Es trägt die Van-Giffen-Nummer D46.

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Großsteingrab Angelslo-Noord is a megalithic passage grave in Angelslo, a residential area of the municipality of Emmen in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It belongs to the late Neolithic western group of the Funnel Beaker culture. The grave stands on a green area between the Fokkingeslag and the Hoitingeslag, amid the Angelslo development zone and near several other megalithic graves.

The grave is aligned east to west. Its chamber is 9,5 m long and 3,6 m wide, with five pairs of side stones and one end stone at each short side. Of the original five capstones, the central one is missing, while another has a row of wedge-shaped holes. No stone enclosure was found. It is unclear whether stones forming an entrance passage once stood in front of the chamber.

The grave was first mentioned on the Hottinger-Karte, made between 1788 and 1792. It was visited in 1847 by Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen and documented in several later surveys, including work by Willem Pleyte in 1874 and detailed drawings by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden in 1878. Albert Egges van Giffen recorded it in 1918. Restorations took place in 1960 and 1997, and it has been a National Monument since 1983.

The site was dated to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE by typological estimate. It was recorded in 2017 through photogrammetry in a 3D-Atlas created with the Province of Drente, the University of Groningen and the Gratama Foundation. Megalithic tombs of this kind in the Netherlands are known as hunebedden; monuments of this western Funnel Beaker tradition were built between 3470 and 3250 BCE and used until about 2760 BCE.

No English Wikipedia article exists for it; the full text below is the German article "Großsteingrab Angelslo-Noord", shown in the original language.

Großsteingrab Angelslo-Noord

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D46 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 Angelslo-Noord", shown in the original language.