This is intriguing. This is the 1793 (inscribed 'FREIXO DE NVMAN - 1793') shaft of the 'pelourinho' (a column indicating the power of the local council) of the town of Freixo de Numão in the North of Portugal near Vila Nova de Foz Côa. The 'tree' is ostensibly a stylized ash-tree (freixo) but the similarity to the ancient depiction of the menorag is remarkable. Freixo was a centre of Jewish settlement and over 100 Inquisition processos originated here between 1569 and 1764.