[2] Andrew Jervise relates the stone was found in a field called the Chashel or Castle Park, and that the site later became a quarry.

[3] While this name is no longer extant, James Headrick records it was in East Mains of Dunnichen,[4] and the location was later assigned in 1966 at a disused quarry on that farm.

[1] The discovery was described by Headrick: ... a good many years ago, there was turned up with the plough a large flat stone, on which is cut a rude outline of an armed warrior's head and shoulders[4]Jervise, noting the inaccuracy of description, identifies this confidently with the extant Dunnichen Stone.

[1] It is incised on one face with three symbols: a pictish flower; a double disc and Z-rod; and a mirror and comb.

While the double disc and Z-rod and mirror and comb motifs are fairly common and exist together elsewhere (see for example the Aberlemno Serpent Stone) the Flower is relatively rare.