D6

D6 is a dolmen at Tynaarlo, a district of the municipality of the same name in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It stands at the eastern edge of the village, directly north of the Hunebedstraat. The monument is also known as a hunebed and belongs to the megalithic tomb tradition of the Funnel Beaker culture. Its dating is an estimate of 3500–2800 BCE, based on typological comparison.

D6 is one of the best-preserved hunebedden in the Netherlands. It is a passage grave aligned from southeast to northwest. The burial chamber measures 5.5 m in length and 3.1 m in width. Three pairs of side stones line the long sides, with one closing stone at each end and three capstones above. The entrance lies between the first and second wall stones of the southwest side. No projecting passage stones or stone enclosure have been identified.

The monument was probably first mentioned on a 1570 map as “Duvels Kutte”, followed by a secure reference in 1711 by Ludolf Smids. Its good condition made it a popular subject for painters in the 18th and 19th centuries. It was documented by Ludolf Smids, Janssen, Pleyte, Lukis and Dryden, Albert Egges van Giffen and others. Since 1993 it has been a Rijksmonument. In 2017 it was recorded in a 3D atlas using photogrammetry by Stichting Gratama with the Province of Drenthe and the Reichsuniversiteit Groningen.

A second monument, D6a, once stood to the east but was destroyed at an unknown date. Its remains were investigated in 1928. The chamber measured 4.8 m by 2 m and had four pairs of wall stones with one closing stone at each end. Excavation yielded small amounts of cremated human bone from two individuals, pottery, flint axes, arrowheads, amber beads, Bell Beaker fragments and burnt animal bone. D6 itself has never been systematically excavated; Lukis and Dryden only collected a few sherds from the chamber.

D6 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 "Großsteingräber bei Tynaarlo", shown in the original language.