Pouch belt plate, 1st Somersetshire Rifle Volunteers Corps, 1880 (c).

White metal die-struck. Possibly an officer's.
An oval frosted garter with burnished rims, surmounted by a monarchial crown and bearing the burnished title, '1st Battalion Somerset Rifles'.
Within the circlet upon a voided ground a shield charged with the Arms of Bath as blazoned in Burke viz: party per fesse embattled azure and gules the base masoned sable and charged with two crosses bottonnee of the last as fortifications; in chief two bars wavy argent, over all a sword in pale of the last, hilt and pommel or, on the blade a key. (The colours are indicated in trick where size permits).
The shield is surmounted by a mural crown.
The reverse bears two brass screw and nut fittings vertically placed.