Taken from the on-site information board:
Stone Age megalithic tomb
—a destroyed dolmen—
At a time when humankind made do with simple earthen caves, tent-like huts or stilt houses as dwellings, they erected structures for eternity for their dead. Even today, on remote moors or in secluded woods, we still find massive stone structures as the half-vanished remnants of that distant prehistory (4th millennium BCE), some of which, like this one, fell victim to stone quarrers.
This structure consisted of an approximately square chamber, which was sealed from above by capstones. Originally, this structure was probably also surrounded by a stone ring and covered with earth. This is a large dolmen of which only fragments remain. Apart from the four wall stones, the capstones, wall stones and keystones were dismantled by stone cutters and were probably used for road construction.
During an investigation of the site by the Mecklenburg archaeologist Prof. Dr Ewald SchuIdt in 1967, remains of a cobblestone paving were found in the chamber floor. This made it possible to determine the chamber’s original dimensions precisely as 1.3 m wide and 4.6 m long. The positions of the wall stones, which are now missing, could also be identified.
Despite the extensive damage to the site, the drawn reconstruction provides an impressive picture of the original chamber.