Found my first point!!!!

[Clay Slayer]

Finally...

I've lived in south central Louisiana my entire life and have always been an enthusiast of pre-history. Because of the area I lived in, I resigned myself to the fact that I would never find a point of any kind in situ. Anyway, I just moved to Biloxi, Mississippi last week, and have been walking the beach every morning.

Well, this is this mornings finds...I'm so excited I swear I almost cried. I finally found my first point...and it was on a public beach in "downtown" Biloxi, MS...only a mile or so from the casino area. Ha!

I found one point and a few pottery shards. Most are plain, but one was still has some decent incised checkering on it.

Again, I'm so frickin excited...

 

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[Tdog]

It just might be a Pickwick!

https://www.projectilepoints.net/Points/Pickwick.html

 

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[IMAUDIGGER]

I’d be searching towards the eroding banks...?

 

[sandchip]

Great looking point!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Congrats on your first point. That is a nice looking one.

 

[Shorewalker]

Congratulations! I about went crazy when I found my first point.

 

[MAMucker]

Very nice find!
Up here in New England, we have archaic points made of Argillite that quite resembles the lithic your point is made of. I don’t know if this lithic was used in your region.
Some have said that your point is possibly a Pickwick. That may be a good ID.
I would lean toward a GARY due to its broken stem having a tapered look to it. This would place it’s age within the late Archaic Period.

Just my two-cents.

Congratulations!