The vaulted tomb is located in the valley below the fortified settlement in a fenced plot and is open to visitors. It has a 13.50m-long stone-lined road, an orifice with a lintel and a relief triangle above the doorway. The burial chamber is 6,85 metres in diameter and 5,80 metres high. The vault has been preserved and thus the tomb is the best preserved in all of Messinia and perhaps in all of Mycenaean Greece. The Tholotos Tafos had already been sealed when it was excavated in 1926 and the material that remained included a mixture of Mycenaean ceramics and later fragments.
It is worth noting that two other vaulted tombs have been found nearby and their discovery led archaeologists to conclude that there were rulers in the area. Near the tombs, the excavators report the existence of large Mycenaean buildings which seem to belong to another Late Bronze Age settlement, which remains unexplored.
