由于三星堆文物地下埋藏浅,近20年来,经常有被民间发掘出土的情况。农民在田间耕作,随时会挖到玉石器、青铜器、陶器等古物,砖厂在野外取土,工程的挖坑排水,几乎常有古物出土;甚至下暴雨发大水,三星堆的鸭子河底和周围,经常会有一些青铜模范、陶片、玉石器被冲刷露出地表。只要是较完整的,就会被当地人捡走卖给不法商贩,其中不乏礼器、人头雕像及神巫雕像等精美玉器。而当地还有一帮“夜袭队”, Due to the shallow buried underground Sanxingdui, nearly 20 years, often unearthed by the people unearthed. Farmers in the field farming, ready to dig jade, bronze, pottery and other antiquities, brick plants in the field to take earth, digging drainage works, almost always antiquities unearthed; even under heavy rain and floods, the Sanxingdui duck river and Around, there are often some bronze model, pottery, jade was washed out of the surface. As long as it is more complete, it will be picked up by local people to sell unscrupulous traders, many of them, such as etiquette, statues of human heads and statues of witch jade and other exquisite jade. The local there are a bunch of “night attack team”