Additionally, there were two olive trees, one on each side of the lampstand, which are described more fully later in this chapter. In an influential study published in 1970, Robert North challenged this picture of what Zechariah saw. Drawing especially on archeological findings, he argued that this vision presents not a seven-stemmed lampstand, but a kind of lampstand with a single basin on top, with seven smaller lamps affixed upon the rim of the basin, and with each of the seven lamps having seven