Show I Coal W Was as Used in tiLe the Bronze Age The popular legend legend-is is that coal was discovered by Joseph of Arimathea Arimathea Ari- Ari mathea who near Glastonbury in 1 A. A T D D. 67 found a black lump and took it to the monastery where it was thought to be a stone and thrown on the fire It became known as sea coles and was wa's was first used generally as fuel in 1228 It is now established that coal was used in Great Britain much I earlier Sir Cyril Fox director of the National Museum of Wales while excavating in the neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood of Bridgend England came across two cairns both of the Bronze age One had buried in it two adults and a child and fragments fragments fragments frag frag- ments of coal found with each set of remains show that coal was used in these cremation burials It was also established that the burials burials burials buri buri- als took place about 1600 B. B C. C |