Capler Camp Explained

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] 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]

Further reading

• Children, G; Nash, G (1994) Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press

External links

• Capler Camp at PastScape
• Capler Camp Monument Detail

51.9935°N -2.5952°W

Notes and References

1. Web site: Capler Camp . Roman Britain Organisation . 2012-06-05 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110703104513/http://roman-britain.org/celtic/capler_camp.htm . 2011-07-03 .
2. Book: Coplestone-Crow . Bruce . Herefordshire Place-names . 2009 . Logaston Press . 233.