Le Grand-Pressigny
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Commune of Le Grand-Pressigny |
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| Location | |
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| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Touraine |
| Department | Indre-et-Loire |
| Arrondissement | Loches |
| Canton | Le Grand Pressigny |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de la Touraine du Sud |
| Mayor | Francois-Nicolas Joannès (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Elevation | 52 m–135 m |
| Land area¹ | 39.55 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
1 119 |
| - Density | 27/km² (1999) |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 37113/ 37350 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
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Le Grand-Pressigny is a commune of the Indre-et-Loire département in France. Grand Pressigny is the name of a Chalcolithic flint 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, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Blocks of flint and unfinished blanks were traded as well as finished tools.
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