Capler Camp
Iron Age Hillfort
Capler Camp, hill-fort (SO/593329) 7 miles SE of Hereford, 1¼ miles SE of Frownhope (B4224). – Capler is triangular in plan, its earthworks elnclosing the long, narrow top of a hill commanding the River Wye. An area of about 10 acres is thus fortified. The defences consist of 2 banks and ditches on the S, with a scarped hillside facing N. Here the crest of the hill is likely to have been protected in addition by a stockade or a slight bank. The entrance is at the E end, where the S rampart ends in a large mound and the rampart N of it continues E to make a well-protected approach. Not dated.
GtPE, pp.145/6
NGRef: SO592329
OSMap: LR149
Sites near Capler Camp
- Ariconium (10 km)
Major Settlement - Dymock (Macatonium) Roman Settlement (11 km)
Minor Settlement - Canon Frome (Stretton Grandison) Roman Fort (11 km)
Claudian Auxiliary Fort (AD 43–54) and Minor Settlement - Sutton Walls Hill Fort (15 km)
Iron Age Hillfort - Huntsham Villa (15 km)
Villa - Midsummer Hill Camp (18 km)
- Little Doward Camp (18 km)
- Weir Gardens Temple (18 km)
Villa - Blestium (Monmouth) Vicus (22 km)
Vicus - Monmouth (Blestium) Roman Fort (22 km)
Auxiliary Fort and Vexillation Fort