Le Grand-Pressigny is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire

Indre-et-Loire is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.-History:Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 départements created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

 department in central France

France

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Grand Pressigny is the name of a Chalcolithic flint

Flint

Flint is a hard, sedimentary cryptocrystalline form of the mineral quartz, categorized as a variety of chert. It occurs chiefly as nodules and masses in sedimentary rocks, such as chalks and limestones. Inside the nodule, flint is usually dark grey, black, green, white, or brown in colour, and...

 mine located in the commune. It produced an unusual caramel-coloured stone which appears to have been highly-prized across Europe with examples found in the Pyrenees

Pyrenees

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, the Netherlands

Netherlands

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 and Switzerland

Switzerland

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. Blocks of flint and unfinished blank

Blank

Blank may refer to:*Blank, a space where there is nothing at all.*Blank , a thick, shaped stone biface of suitable size and configuration for refining into a stone tool...

s were traded as well as finished tools.

See also

• Grimes Graves
  Grimes Graves
  Grime's Graves is a large Neolithic flint mining complex near Brandon in England close to the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. It was worked between around circa 3000 BC and circa 1900 BC, although production may have continued well into the Bronze and Iron Ages owing to the low cost of flint...
  
  
• Tony Tebby
  Tony Tebby
  Tony Tebby is probably most famous for designing Qdos, the computer operating system used in the Sinclair QL personal computer, whilst working as an engineer at Sinclair Research in the early 1980s...
  
  
• Le Petit-Pressigny
  Le Petit-Pressigny
  Le Petit-Pressigny is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France....
  
  
• Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department