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Hi Antonio,
Looks to me as the tangential aspect of a flat sawn board with the grain not running completely parallel to the surface. There is a little pin knot, but I don’t see the pattern of a major branch taken off. Am good at being wrong, though.
The slight change in colour at the upper right of the second photo (left on the first), looks like an ordinary growth ring in transition between tangential and radial, and having absorbed some form of extractive. The rot in beech that I’ve seen has been dark grey or black and with fissures running along the wood.
In summary: looks like very decent beech, that I would be happy to use. The kitchen top at our croft looks quite similar.