Police Helmet Plate

Last year, while metal detecting in a field in Gloucestershire, I found this helmet plate, from the helmet of a policeman in the Gloucestershire Constabulary. The “G” stands for Gloucestershire, and the crown at the top shows that it’s from the reign of Victoria. I found, while researching this, that the constabulary used two versions of this during Victoria’s reign, and that this is the earlier of the two.