YOUNGSTERS from a school in Winchester got a taste of living history when knights in armour arrived at their school.

The children from Stanmore Primary School met the "living historians" as part of a project on knights and castles that the school is currently sudying.

But to make things as authentic as possible for the pupils, a real knight then took up the call to arms to come and show the children just what armour looked like in the flesh, and more importantly how much it weighed.

A spokesman for the school, said: "It was a very useful experience for the children to see a knight in real life, so they could get a hands-on taste for what life must have really been like for knights back in the medieval period."