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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 271911" data-attributes="member: 5990">It depends on the size of the battle, but after fairly big ones (say more than several thousand combatants), farmers will still be plowing up the odd artifact centuries later.  There probably won't be armor and whole weapons, since those are usually reclaimed or looted, but you do tend to find sling bullets, arrowheads, and broken pieces of this-n-that.  You might find a few mass graves here and there, but (assuming you're talking about your Greek campaign) due to an inviolable taboo in the Hellenic world, corpses were never left unburied.  They weren't commonly buried on the battlefield either (an exception was made for those who fell at Marathon, as a signal mark of honor).  Sometimes you might turn up the remains of horses (mostly teeth after that much time) though if there was a large cavalry engagement.Without the looting and if the bodies hadn't been removed, you'd definitely find a lot of stuff within the first century anyway.I'd say there won't be any immediately visible evidence after 400 years, but a careful search should be able reveal such evidence, say DC 15 or 20.  Vary the DC based on whether it was cleaned up and how many people were involved.  Maybe like DC 15 for an major, unlooted battlefield, and 25 for a minor, looted battlefield.</blockquote>