D5

Ganggrab von Zeijen is a dolmen near Zeijen, a district of Tynaarlo in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It stands northwest of Zeijen in a field reached by a field path. Nearby are settlements dating from the beginning of the Neolithic, while the Nord Veld area to the northwest contains many burial mounds and a large complex of Celtic Fields, known in Dutch as Raatakkers.

The monument is a passage grave aligned east-southeast to west-northwest in a shallow hollow. Its original mound has largely been removed, and no stone enclosure could be identified. The burial chamber is 7.4 m long and 2.5 m wide, with four pairs of wall stones along the long sides, an end stone at each short side, and four capstones. The entrance is in the middle of the southern long side; no projecting passage stones are present.

The site was first described by Nicolaus Westendorp, who visited in 1814 and published a report in 1815. Caspar Reuvens described it in 1833 and carried out a small excavation. Further studies and surveys followed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The monument was restored in 1952, a small excavation was made at the entrance in 1965, and it has been a Rijksmonument since 1993. In 2017 it was recorded with photogrammetry in a 3D atlas.

The grave carries the Van-Giffen number D5. Its dating is estimated from 3500–2800 BCE. It belongs to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and is associated with the form of Nordic megalith architecture that developed in northern Germany and the Netherlands between 3500 and 2800 BCE.

D5 is a dolmen in Tynaarlo, 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 "Ganggrab von Zeijen", shown in the original language.