Show coal was used in the bronze A age ge tho the popular legend Is that cool coal was discovered by josepfa of arl cathca athea who near glastonbury Glaston bury in A D 67 07 found a black lump and took it to tho the monastery cry where it was thought to bo be a stone and and thrown on the fire it became known as sea colos and was first used generally as fuel in 1228 it Is now established that coal was used in great britain much earlier sir cyril vox fox director of tho the national museum 0 of f wales while excavating in tho the neighborhood of brid gend england came two cairns cairn s bo both th of the across burled buried tn in it bronze age one had two adults and a child and fragments of co coal al found with each sot set remains show that coal was of used in those cremation burial bu rials s it also established that tho the burl buri was als took place about 1 1600 B C |