The monument includes a bowl barrow, and part of a later boundary feature, situated on a clay-capped, chalk hill which forms part of the Kent Downs. The barrow has a circular mound approximately 20m in diameter and up to about 1m high, surrounded by a ditch from which material used to construct the barrow was excavated. This has become infilled over the years, but survives as a buried feature about 3m wide. The south eastern side of the encircling ditch is crossed by part of a low, linear boundary bank which measures about 2.5m wide and 0.3m high. The north east-south west aligned earthwork, which continues beyond the area of protection, forms part of a series of banks and ditches within West Wood. These are thought to represent the remains of former land use patterns of medieval or post-medieval date. Bowl barrows, the most numerous form of round barrow, are funerary monuments dating from the Late Neolithic period to the Late Bronze Age, with most examples belonging to the period 2400-1500 BC. They were constructed as earthen or rubble mounds, sometimes ditched, which covered single or multiple burials. They occur either in isolation or grouped as cemeteries and often acted as a focus for burials in later periods. Often superficially similar, although differing widely in size, they exhibit regional variations in form and a diversity of burial practices. There are over 10,000 surviving bowl barrows recorded nationally (many more have already been destroyed), occurring across most of lowland Britain. Often occupying prominent locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape and their considerable variation of form and longevity as a monument type provide important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisations amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their period and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered worthy of protection. Despite some disturbance by tree-root action, the bowl barrow and part of a later boundary bank, in the northern part of West Wood, 600m west of Mockbeggar Farm survive well and will contain archaeological remains and environmental evidence relating to their construction and the landscape in which they were situated. The barrow forms part of a widely dispersed group of at least seven bowl barrows of broadly contemporary date on this part of the Kent Downs, which are the subjects of separate schedulings, providing evidence for the importance of this area for burial practices during the prehistoric period. The section of boundary bank which crosses the barrow belongs to a wider complex of banks, ditches and trackways which represent the subsequent land use patterns across the Downs during the medieval and post-medieval periods.