It is located by the village Knebel on the hilly southern part of the peninsula, Djursland, at the entrance to the Baltic Sea between Denmark and Sweden in northern Europe.

[1] The central burial chamber is equipped with a capstone weighing 11 tonnes (12 tons), surrounded by 23 slabs taller than a man, forming a circle.

[1] The capstone is the lesser half of a granite slab brought to Denmark from Northern Scandinavia by ice age glaciers' movements.

The other half is a 19-tonne (21-ton) slab 2 km (1.2 mi) to the northwest, placed as a capstone on another dolmen, Agri Dyssen.

Therefore, large granite slabs have been sought out for construction purposes and many dolmens have disappeared or been damaged.