D50 Noord sleen

Latitude:
52° 47' 45.87 N
Longitude:
6° 47' 13.82 E
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Image of D50 Noord sleen (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This ground-level composite photograph of hunebed D50 was taken from the east.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Aug 5, 2017
Image of D50 Noord sleen (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This ground-level composite photograph, taken from the west, really emphasises the grandeur of Hunebed D50.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Aug 5, 2017
Image of D50 Noord sleen (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This stitched panorama was created from photographs taken with the camera elevated on a monopod, and provides an insight into the amazing ring of 24 kerbstones surrounding the hunebed itself.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jul 9, 2016
Image of D50 Noord sleen (Hunebed) by LesHamilton

This stitched panorama of three photographs emphasises the extent of this enormous hunebed.

Image credit: Les Hamilton
LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jul 9, 2016
Image of D50 Noord sleen (Hunebed) by Martin_L

Pole aerial view from the West showing the largely exposed 17m x 4,35m chamber [1] and parts of the oval enclosure.
August 2010

[1] van Giffen, A.E., De hunebedden in Nederland, Utrecht 1925, pl. 106

Image credit: Martin_L
Martin_L
Martin_L Nov 12, 2010

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D50 Noord sleen

Nucleus
Nucleus Jul 23, 2018

I totally agree with Les Hamiltion: This is the unsung hero of all Hunebeds in The Netherlands.

Away from the usual beaten tracks, this huge (17m x 4.4m) beauty still has most kerbstones (I counted twenty-four), seven of eight capstones along with sixteen sidestones and two endstones. The only flaw you might find is that only one of the portal stones is still present. Otherwise it is nearly perfect.

So this is a must see site, chances are very high that you can experience this site complete on your own, as D50 Noord sleen is, due to reasons unknown to me, not one of the most famous Hunebeds in Drenthe.

Highly recommended!

Visited July 2018

D50 Noord sleen

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Aug 5, 2017

Visited: July 17, 2017

On this, my third visit to the superb Hunebed D50 at Noord Sleen, I was at last blessed with warm summer weather and was able to enjoy the stones in glorious sunshine (last year heavy rain and gales forced me to retreat).

This excursion was pursued in a manner designed to allow several hours of pleasant woodland walking, and is one which I thoroughly recommend. I took the No 21 bus from Assen and alighted at the Voshaar bus halt, beside Recreation Center Rijmaaran (just south of the village of Schoonoord).
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The walk started by entering the grounds of the Center and following the Hunebed sign directing visitors into the woodland and on to Hunebed D49 (the so-called Papeloze Kerk – blue marker). After inspecting the hunebed, I continued in the same direction for about 110 metres to a forestry road and headed south to Galgenberg, a large Bronze-Age burial mound (red marker).

From here, the walk continued through airy woodlands until the N381 highway was reached. Here a path leads left to a stile at the point where the woodland gives way to fields.

Cross the highway and straddle (or duck under) the single strand fence on the far side to gain the metalled road (Hunebedweg) leading to Hunebed D50, 400 metres farther on (green marker).

The total distance walked was just under 5 kilometres.
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To complete my day, I continued south to the end of Hunebedweg and turned left along Zweelooerstraat into the village of Noord Sleen to catch the No 21 bus to Emmen, where I spent a further hour visiting Hunebed D43 Schimmeres (the langgraaf) and Hunebed D45 Emmerdennen.

D50 Noord sleen

LesHamilton
LesHamilton Jul 9, 2016

Visited: July 2, 2016

Hunebed D50 Noord Sleen is in many respects the most spectacular of all the hunebedden, not only for its sheer bulk (it measures 17 metres in length, almost 4.5 metres in width and consists of 16 sidestones and 7 of the original 8 capstones), but because it is surrounded by the most complete set of kerbstones of any hunebed. It is this ring of kerbstones that immediately catches the eye, as many of them are as tall as the sidestones in the hunebed itself, in contrast with the rather diminuitive kerbstones found at other hunebedden.

The circle is also noteworthy for the close packing of its stones which, at several places round the hunebed, stand virtually shoulder to shoulder with each other.

Hunebed D50 possesses just a single remaining stone of its entrance passage. The three missing ones have been marked by concrete slabs by Albert van Giffen.

I first visited here in 2011, and have been waiting for a sunny day to do photographing it justice on several trips to Drenthe since. This seemed to be the day, as I had just visited the Stone of Noordbarge in hot sunshine, but as I took the bus the few kilometres up the road to Noord Sleen, dark clouds gathered. I just had time to take a few photographs of D50 in reasonable light before the rain came, and then I had to beat a hasty retreat as wind and rain lashed the area.

You can read more about Hunebed D50 on Hans Meijer’s website.

This updates the link (below) provided by Jayne, which is now ‘dead’.

D50 Noord sleen

Jane
Jane Jul 29, 2007

29 December 2003
Well-signposted in the village of Noord sleen near Emmen, this hunebed lies complete with kerbstones close to its more trashed neighbour, D51.

Visible from D51, perhaps just 50 metres away, is D50 and this is a cracker. Ten metres long, maybe more, and with 8 of its original 9 capstones still there and all still supported by their uprights, this monument is in really good shape enhanced by its original kerbstones encircling the line of ‘dolmens’. And today, sparkling under yesterday’s snowfall, it was magical, the snowmelt creating beautiful abstract shapes and blueish light against the greeny grey stones. While Moth made photographs, I made a quick sketch.

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