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Show First Coalman The popular legend is that coal was discovered by Joseph of Ari-mathea Ari-mathea who, near Glastonbury 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 became known as "seacoles," and was first used generally as fuel in 1228. It is now established that coal was used in Great Britain much earlier. Sir Cyril Fox, director of the National Museum of Wales, while excavating in the neighborhood 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 frag-ments of coal found with each set of remains show that coal was used in these cremation burials. The largest piece of cqal taken from the earth was raised from a colliery at Abram, near Wigam. It weighed 11 tons after being squared for transit. It was sent to the International Exhibition of Chicago in 1893 and eventually was presented to the Permanent Museum at Chicago. |