D7

Großsteingrab Schipborg is a dolmen in the Kniphorstbos forest southeast of Schipborg, a district of Aa en Hunze in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a megalithic burial place of the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture and carries the Van-Giffen number D7.

The monument is an east-northeast to west-southwest oriented passage grave. Its chamber is 8,8 m long and 3,1 m wide, with four pairs of wall stones along the long sides, one closing stone at each short side and four capstones. A large piece has broken from one capstone and now lies inside the chamber. The entrance is on the middle of the southern long side, preceded by a passage formed from two wall stones.

The grave was first mentioned on French maps made in 1811–13. Leonhardt Johannes Friedrich Janssen visited it in 1847, and Willem Pleyte and the photographer Jan Goedeljee photographed the Drenthe megalithic graves in 1874. William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden investigated it in 1878. Albert Egges van Giffen documented the monument in 1918, it was restored in 1952, and photogrammetry recorded it in 3D in 2017.

The surviving dolmen belongs to a regional tradition of megalithic tombs built by the Funnel Beaker culture. In the Netherlands, these monuments are known as hunebedden and were built by the western group of that culture. Such sites were later reused by the Single Grave and Bell Beaker cultures in the Early Bronze Age and, less extensively, during the Middle Ages.

D7 is a dolmen in Aa en Hunze, 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 Schipborg", shown in the original language.