There is so little left that these two sad piles of stones are hardly recognisable as hunebeds. The top photo shows D23 with D24 in the background. Both ruins still have one remaining lintel resting on its uprights. D24 must originally have had 4 lintels but now there are only 2 left; it is impossible to establish how large D23 was.
In fact these are two of a trio, the largest one – D25 – lies a little to the west.
Location of hunebed D24
Visit of Professor van Giffen in 1918
“The hunebed is very incomplete and heavily damaged”, wrote Van Giffen in 1925. A rowan tree was growing in the chamber. He counted 2 sunken and fallen lintels, 2 keystones still in place and 6 uprights. He also detected the remains of the covering mound. The hunebed has been owned by the State since 1971.
(Source: Atlas of “De Hunebedden in Nederland”, dr.A.E.van Giffen, 1925)
For more information about this and other hunebeds in Drenthe see
www.hunebedden.nl and www.hunebeddeninfo.nl
Text Hans Meijer
Translation Alun Harvey
Photos Davado
