WINCHESTER City Museum is holding a medieval day today.

Visitors to the Magnificent Middles Ages event will be able to enjoy free family activities, including meeting a medieval man-at-arms, making cutout medieval characters to take away and handling artefacts from the time.

Katie Hinds, Hampshire finds liaison officer for the portable antiquities scheme, will be on hand to help the public identify artefacts found in their back gardens.

Part of the national Festival of Archaeology, doors opened at 11am at the museum in The Square