As described by Willey 1949:440:
Definition as a type: Northwest coast of Florida
Ware characteristics:
Method of manufacture: Coiling or annular technique
Temper: Fine sand with only rare coarser particles in the form of grit or lumps of clay. Mica observed in most sherds.
Paste texture and color: Granular. Some tendency, occasionally observed, toward lamination and contortion of paste, although this does not affect the hard, compact quality of the paste. May be oxidized to buff color throughout; may have buff surfaces and gray core; may have only an exterior buff surface; or may be gray-black throughout.
Surface texture, color, and finish: Surface color varies according to the firing. Light buff, red-buff, gray, and mottled black are the most common. Fire clouding is frequent. Both surfaces well smoothed to polished. Red paint of a carmine shade has been used as a slip on many specimens. Those so painted were nearly all of natural buff surface. Paint has the appearance of a 'fugitive' red as it is much worn and, in some cases, almost competely obliterated. Nevertheless, it does not rub off and appears to have been fixed by firing, so the term 'fugitive' does not properly apply. In some cases the paint was applied only to the interiors of open bowls; in others the interiors and the lip and vessel rim fold were painted red with vessel exterior left unpainted; rarely was red paint applied completely to both surfaces. Vessels with red paint are virtually all of the open bowl form (P1. 39, e-f.)
Hardness: 2.5 to 4.
Thickness: Vessel walls average 6 to 7 mm. with rims appreciably thicker
Decoration:
Technique: Net impressions in clay before firing.
Design: Net-impressed decoration of diamond-shaped mesh. Diamonds about 1 cm. long. There is a deep pit at each intersection of the cord impressions suggestive of a knot. Decoration may have been effected with a net-wrapped paddle. Impressions usually semiobliterated or blurred.
Distribution: Probably entire vessel exterior.
Form:
Total vessel and rim: Jars or collared jars. Rims slightly outflared or incurved and recurved. Exterior folds present.
Lip: Flat and rounded
Associations: Weeden Island I and II Periods on the northwest Florida coast.
