DEVIZES School pupils were encouraged to think like people living in the area 5,000 years ago when they met poet Rose Flint at Wiltshire Heritage Museum in Long Street last week.

She is on a 20-day residency at the museum, funded by Southern Arts, and is forging a link between history and art.

The project developed from her regular visits to the museum while she was working as an art therapist at Green Lane Hospital. She said: "I thought it was wonderful, especially the Bronze Age collection, and it has now become a passion of mine."

She approached Southern Arts and was given funding for the project. She will be reading some of her poems inspired by the artefacts at the museum at an event on November 6.

One of them was inspired by an amber necklace found in a grave near Stonehenge; "This grey gate where rain hangs a net before the night and where if she makes the journey tomorrow's midsummer sun will rise between her eyes."

Rose also hopes to include some of the poems written by pupils who visited the museum last week.