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In 1925 the later King Edward VIII, then the Duke of Cornwall, entrusted the ruin to the state. The castle is a Scheduled Monument. It is now maintained by English Heritage as a popular tourist attraction and picnic site.
In 1999 members of the Cornish Stannary Parliament removed signs from this site and other Cornish sites under the care of the English Heritage organisation, based upon the claim that the sites should properly be marked as Cornish heritage and not English. Three men later paid criminal fines in connection with these actions.
In 2007 British Archaeology magazine reported the discovery of a Roman fort near Restormel Castle. A geophysical magnetometer survey was conducted by members of the Saltash Heritage.
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