Show coal was used in hi the bronze age ae the popular legen d isahag is that coal was discovered by joseph of art arl mathea who near glastonbury Glaston bury in A 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 if became known as sea coles and was first used generally as fuelin 1228 it is now established that coil coal was used in great britain much earlier sir cyril fox di director rectA oi of the national museum of wales while excavating in the neighborhood of brid gend england came across two calms both of the bronze age one had burled in it two adults and a child and fragments ments of coal found with each set of remains show that coal was used in these cremation burials bu rials it was als also 0 established that the buri als took place about 1600 B C |