VISITORS have been getting "hands on" with history at Stonehenge over Easter.

Activities have included Neolithic jewellery making, flint knapping and bronze casting as well as the Moving a Stone workshops.

The Moving a Stone event was designed to give visitors of all ages the chance to experience what it might have felt like to build Stonehenge by helping to move a four tonne stone similar in size and shape to the actual lintels of the stone circle.

A spokesman for English Heritage said: “We have been encouraging visitors to get hands-on with history this Easter. One of the highlights has been Moving and Raising a Stone where visitors have had lots of fun experiencing what it might have been like for the builders of Stonehenge to transport the massive stones to Salisbury Plain.

"There’s a huge sense of achievement when you get the stone moving, supporting one theory that part of the purpose of the monument may have been a display of social solidity."