Bowls are infrequent, but exhibit thick walls and are deeper than they are wide. Crude miniature vessels have also been recovered from some sites. Temper is mostly grit, but sand and, more rarely, shell are also present. Surface treatment consists of fine, parallel cordmarking and fabric roughening. Appendages consist of vertical nodes on cambered rim vessels and, more commonly, constricted, or v-shaped, strap handles.
Ceramic decoration is similarly diverse.
On rim strips, oblique or chevron lines executed with a plain or cordwrapped dowel are common. Cord impression is the typical method of decorative execution on cambered and straight rims, and on vessels with collared rims. The motif on these vessels can be chevrons, oblique lines, line-filled triangles, or zoned triangles. The ceramics once included in this phase represent a mixed association of Fort Ancient-like vessels and a very wide range of Late Woodland vessel forms. Some of the other sites assigned to the Oliver Phase by Dorwin also do not exhibit the full range of ceramics originally identified at the Bowen Site.