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Short horizontal tufts marking waterlogged ground.
Also known as: Swamp symbol, Wetland marking, Bog symbol
Marsh is drawn as scattered horizontal tufts standing for reeds, a convention shared across most national mapping. On a walking map it is a warning as much as a description: marsh is ground that will not carry a route drawn straight across it.
Marks permanently or seasonally waterlogged ground, drawn as scattered short horizontal strokes representing reeds.
Contexts: Maps
Uses close to the same drawn form across British, American and French mapping, which makes it one of the more portable topographic symbols.
Contexts: Maps
Groups of two or three short horizontal strokes stacked in a small vertical cluster, scattered evenly over an area.