Goldbusch

The burial chamber has two side walls, each formed from three large supporting stones. Originally two capstones rested on these uprights, but only one has survived. Twenty-seven shallow depressions, so-called cup marks (German: Schälchen, little bowls), may be seen on the surviving capstone. The chamber is oriented in an east-west direction. It was originally completely covered by an earth mound and accessible only via a narrow passage at one end. The passage, which points to the southwest, is made of red sandstone slabs. The opposite end of the chamber to the entrance is formed by a single large stone.

At comparable burial sites there is often a trapezoidal frame of individual standing stones surrounding the whole site, known as a Hünenbett. This is missing at Goldbusch, although there may have been one initially. The chamber was probably originally buried under an earth mound covered in turn with boulders.

The grave site was constructed in the New Stone Age by the agricultural peoples of the Funnelbeaker culture and used for several centuries. The dead would have been laid out for extended periods outdoors, and the bones were laid down together with the grave goods in the chamber. In the local area around the tomb was a large number of similar sites. On the Hagenow Map of 1829, 43 megalithic tombs are shown within an area little more than two kilometres long between Altensien and Seedorf. Of these, only the Goldbusch site, close to the shore of Lake Sellin, has partly survived.