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Cock Marsh is an area of flat water meadows and steep chalk hillsides near Cookham village and civil parish in the north-eastern corner of Berkshire in England, on the River Thames. It covers 〔 and has been common land used for grazing since 1272. It was bought by local villagers and given to the National Trust in 1934.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Thames and Solent Countryside )〕 It has four burial mounds that are scheduled monuments.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Scheduled monuments for Berkshire corrected to 1952 ) 〕 One has a height of 2m, three others around 0.2-0.8m. When they were excavated between 1847 and 1877 by two local men, Cocks and Napier, several cremated bodies were found, together with parts of a shield and a possible Saxon age knife. It is thought likely that the barrows were constructed in the early Bronze Age with secondary Anglo-Saxon use. In 2007, a resistivity survey was carried out by Chiltern Archeology 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Project Report No 15 )〕 which confirmed the existence of four barrows and one other feature. Cock Marsh is now a designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SSSI Citation for Cock Marsh )〕 It is home to many rare plants, notably ''Cyperus fuscus'' (Brown Galingale), which is found in only a handful of sites in Great Britain. The railway line to Marlow and the Thames Path run through Cock Marsh and a footbridge cantilevered from Bourne End Railway Bridge over the river links it with Bourne End in Buckinghamshire where the path continues towards Marlow. Some sources suggested there was an airfield here back in the 1920s used by German and French pilots who were spending their time on the River Thames. ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cock Marsh」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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