Capler Camp

Earthworks at Capler Camp.

Capler Camp is an Iron Age hill fort located 2.5 km south of Fownhope, Herefordshire.

The Camp is on a hill top above the River Wye. It has a double layer of ditches enclosing ten acres.[1]

3D view of the digital terrain model

The Wye Valley Walk goes through this land.

Capler was known as Capelore in the Domesday Book. This name combined caple, "look-out place" with ofer, "flat-topped ridge".[2]

References

  1. ^ "Capler Camp". Roman Britain Organisation. Archived from the original on 3 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2012.
  2. ^ Coplestone-Crow, Bruce (2009). Herefordshire Place-names. Logaston Press. p. 233.

Further reading

  • Children, G; Nash, G (1994) Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1-873827-09-1
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