Capler Camp

Coordinates : 51°59′37″N 2°35′43″W  /  51.9935°N 2.5952°W  / 51.9935; -2.5952
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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 [ edit ]

  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 [ edit ]

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

External links [ edit ]

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