SILSDEN school pupils are a bunch of Neanderthals!

The youngsters got into the prehistoric life during a visit to Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley.

Pupils from Hothfield Junior School visited the popular museum to learn about the stone, bronze and iron ages.

The year three students were able to get busy with tools and weaponry from the ancient eras during a session with specialists from the museum.

Cliffe Castle has an extensive collection of historic artefacts including hundreds of flint arrowheads found at sites around the district including Ilkley Moor.

The museum’s learning and outreach officers run a series of workshops including a look at history from the Stone Age to Iron Age.

Pupils are able to get “hands-on” with real stone age objects and use archaeological techniques including digging and recording to discover how prehistoric people interacted with the land around them.

The museum also has a timeline taking visitors from the dawn of time through to the ice age, and a full-size model of a crocodile-like creature found fossilised in the Keighley area.