D8

The Großsteingräber bei Anloo-Noord were probably three megalithic burial monuments belonging to the western group of the Funnel Beaker culture near Anloo, a village in Aa en Hunze in Drenthe, Netherlands. Only one survives. The remains of the other two were discovered in 1992, while the preserved monument is known as D8 and the destroyed ones as D8a and D8b.

The surviving D8 is a passage grave oriented east-northeast to west-southwest. Its burial chamber measures 7,9 m long and 4,4 m wide, with four pairs of wall stones on the long sides, one closing stone at each short end, and four capstones. A passage originally stood at the middle of the southern long side, although only one of its two wall stones remains. The destroyed monuments survive only as shallow mounds with oval outlines.

D8 was first mentioned in 1711 by Ludolf Smids and drawn in 1768 by Petrus Camper. It was documented in 1878 by William Collings Lukis and Henry Dryden, restored between 1848 and 1875 and again in 1952, and examined in 1965. D8a and D8b were identified and briefly investigated in 1992 by A. Klein Wassink, Jan Evert Musch, and J. Musch, but no excavation has taken place.

D8, D8a, and D8b belong to the Funnel Beaker tradition and are dated by typological estimate to 3500 BCE to 2800 BCE. Surface finds at D8a and D8b included pottery fragments and flint artifacts. In 2017, D8 was recorded with photogrammetry in a 3D atlas created by the Stiftung Gratama, the Province of Drente, and the University of Groningen.

D8 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 "Großsteingräber bei Anloo-Noord", shown in the original language.