<P> Geoff Wainwright and Timothy Darvill have contested Parker Pearson's theories, however; they suggest that Stonehenge was a monument to healing and that connections between the two monuments were unlikely . </P> <P> In 2015 an announcement was made by The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project that a geophysical survey showed evidence of another monument consisting of up to 90 standing stones buried under Durrington Walls . In August 2016 a joint project excavation, directed by Mike Parker Pearson of the Stonehenge Riverside Project and by members of the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, revealed that there are no buried standing stones at Durrington Walls . The ground - penetrating radar results had actually revealed a circle of enormous post-holes, not buried stones, beneath the henge bank which had been later filled with chalk rubble . A National Trust archaeologist, Dr. Nicola Snashall, suggested that as soon as the builders of Stonehenge abandoned their settlement on the site, a large timber monument was constructed and that later "For some strange reason they took the timbers out and put up the enormous bank and ditch that we see today ." </P>

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