This megalithic funerary monument is made up of a polygonal chamber measuring 3.5 meters in diameter, originally formed by seven granite pillars, four of which are broken. It reaches 3.10 meters in height, and the covering slab is preserved in situ. The reuse of the structure, at an unknown date, resulted in the filling of some gaps with dry stone. No corridor evidence was detected. In the surroundings there are some stony elements that could constitute vestiges of the tumulus.

The construction of Anta da Melriça is generically marked out between the mid-4th millennium and mid-3rd millennium BC. (Late Neolithic, Chalcolithic).
There are known documentary references to megalithic monuments in the Sever River basin since 1489, appearing in the Ordenanzas del Concejo de Valencia de Alcantara where they assume the function of territorial landmarks. However, it becomes almost impossible to recognize the ones mentioned. Jorge de Oliveira hypothesizes that it appears in the Donation of Azafa document that King D. Sancho I made to the Order of the Temple in the rostrum indication of the Merliça.
In the middle of the 19th century, Pereira da Costa conducted excavations in this tapir, informing that it did not produce useful results. Terras de Odiana by Possidónio Coelho. It also deserved the attention of George and Vera Leisner, being alluded to in the 1959 publication, Die Megalithgraber der Iberischen Halbinsel: der Westen. Later, at the end of the last century, it is included in the works of the Archaeological Map of Castelo de Vide carried out by Maria Conceição Rodrigues and in the Archaeological Survey of the same county, prepared by Jorge de Oliveira.

Category: National Monument – Decreto: 16-06-1910, DG 136, de 23-06-1910