Divers from the Metropolitan Police force have uncovered a bag of sunken treasure at the bottom of a pond in Plumstead, which they now hope to reunite with its owners.

The dive team came across the potentially sentimental possessions dumped in a supermarket bag whilst working on an unrelated case at Slade Ponds, in Plumstead Common Road, on April 20.

The items include:

- A watch, make unknown, with a black strap inscribed on the back with ‘South Eastern Gas Board presented to William J. Haynes in recognition of forty years valued service 1932 - 1972’

- A cycling medal inscribed on the back with ‘1937 Club 50 1st H cap J. Hutchinson’

- A ring with the inscription ‘In Arduis Fidelis’, the insignia of the Royal Army Medical Corp

- A pin badge with the inscription ‘TAFFA’

- A number of dog tags

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Officers believe the objects have been in the pond for a considerable length of time.

PC Steve Morgan, of the Met’s Marine Support Unit, said: “It’s likely that these items were stolen during the course of residential burglaries and later discarded.

“Most of these objects are likely to be of sentimental, rather than monetary value and it would be wonderful if we could reunite them with their rightful owners, or their descendants.”

Anyone with any information about the items is asked to contact PC Steve Morgan via email - metintel-litmsu@met.police.uk.