Dominic Tweddle

[1] There he studied under Sir David M. Wilson, thereafter the director of the British Museum, a fact which Tweddle credits with helping him obtain his first job.

[7] He served as part of the artefact research and administration team during the watching brief, and was on hand to assess and record objects as they were found.

[9] The chapters "Dating" and "Discussion", in particular, were called "without doubt, the strongest and most informative parts of a book with few weak points",[10] and built on the work of previous authors, including Heiko Steuer and Greta Arwidsson,[11] to offer "a wide-ranging survey, from Pictland to Kiev, of post-Roman helmet types, their distributions and their dating.

[1][2][4] As the Trust had decided to concentrate on its academic mission, it sold Tweddle a design and a multimedia business for £2.

[1][2][4] Over the next 13 years Tweddle thus ran Past Forward Ltd., which provided consultancy work on the design of heritage projects, and merged it with another business to become the Continuum Group, for which he served as CEO; as described by Tweddle, "the merged business basically designed, built, owned and operated visitor attractions in the cultural field.

"[1] By the time of his departure, the business had developed more than 200 cultural heritage projects and owned five visitor attractions, and had annual revenue of £9.5 million and profit of £500,000.