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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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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.

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".

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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