Vessels are reddish yellow (5YR 4/6-8) to pale brown (7.5YR 6/4-6), often fully fired but sometimes with a barely visible firing core. Most have a clean, dense, chalky, almost powdery texture with very fine white and red inclusions. Some have a more granular texture, with small and occasional medium angular lime inclusions and quartz sand.

Fabric is fairly soft, well-levigated, pale buff to pink in color (5YR 7/4 - 7.5YR 7/6), with a chalky texture. A fine dusty film adheres to the fingers upon handling (Berlin 1997, p. 9).

This ware is characterized by a pale brown-buff little ferruginous calcareous marl matrix tempered with coastal sand. The sand is composed by very well sorted fine-grained 0.1-0.3 mm rounded to sub-angular quartz, with lesser quantities of rounded grains of limestone and aquatic shells' fragments. Plagioclase, chert and heavy minerals are very rare. Single coarse (0.5-1.0 mm) inclusions of limestone, shells fragments and nodules of silty ferruginous clay (possibly Terra Rossa) could accidently enter the paste. The temper composes 15-20 percent of the sherds' volume. These vessels have about 1 mm thick light ware outside and around the rim. It would seem that the optical properties of both clay minerals and carbonate component of the paste changed while firing. Possibly additional air at the end of the firing process created higher temperatures and an oxidizing atmosphere for a short time, or use of salt water for 'washing' the vessels could give the same effect. Firing temperature estimated 750ºC.