page_title: Purchas Hill
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Purchas Hill / History
caption_attribution_description: English: A photo looking down Purchas Hill Drive in Stonefields, Auckland. The road is named after Arthur Guyon Purchas, and is built in the location of Purchas Hill which has been predominantly quarried away.
context_page_description: Purchas Hill is one of the volcanoes in the Auckland volcanic field.
  Purchas Hill was a twin-cratered scoria cone around 50 metres high, located north of Maungarei / Mount Wellington, before it was predominately quarried away. The scoria cone sat in the middle of its large explosion crater with a surrounding tuff ring. It erupted about 10,000 years ago, shortly before the eruption of its larger neighbour, Mount Wellington.
context_section_description: In the mid 1800s, geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter named the mountain after the Reverend Dr Arthur Guyon Purchas (1821-1906), in gratitude for his help with geological work on the field.
  The scant remnants of Purchas Hill lie on what is largely a wasteland in the suburb of Stonefields in Auckland.
  The road Purchas Hill Drive is located where Purchas Hill used to be.
caption: A photo looking down Purchas Hill Drive in Stonefields, Auckland.
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