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.
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
Further reading
- Children, G; Nash, G (1994) Prehistoric Sites of Herefordshire Logaston Press ISBN 1-873827-09-1
External links
- Capler Camp at PastScape
- Capler Camp Monument Detail
