A fact from Nympsfield Long Barrow appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 December 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that haematite found during the excavation of Nympsfield Long Barrow may have been used to make face-paint, so that the dead could appear alive?
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Interesting read! I just added a couple of images that I found at Geograph and uploaded to Commons. There are more on Flickr but they do not appear to have a suitable license. I also added a {{Coord}} template to the article, but I am not sure that the coords are 100% accurate. – ukexpat (talk) 15:05, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
The pictures really help, thanks. The coords were from the Geograph image I presume - about 50 m off, I've adjusted them based on Google Earth, and reduced the precision a bit. Mikenorton (talk) 15:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
Yes they were from Geograph, but yours are much more accurate. If I find myself in the area next time I am in the UK, I will take some higher resolution images, but these should be OK for now. – ukexpat (talk) 16:28, 2 December 2010 (UTC)Reply
